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...star Republican fund raiser who since taking office has traveled to 35 states collecting $4.5 million for the party. He heads three special task forces, including one that has had substantial impact on reducing the number of federal regulations. He sees nearly everything that goes to the President. His crisp conduct of National Security Council meetings during the initial weeks of the crackdown in Poland earned him praise from other top Administration officials. But most important, from Bush's point of view, he has won the confidence of his boss. "He is the most loyal team member that anybody...
Northeastern's crisp passing, good outside shooting and brutal work under the boards left the Crimson panting for breath. The Huskies outrebounded the Crimson 45-27, and shot 46 percent from the floor to the home team's 29 percent...
Neil Simon is probably tired of hearing that his work subsists on absurdist non sequiturs, deli-flavored New York humor and crisp punch-liners. So what else is new? Not Little Me, alas...
...after a four-year flirtation with celebrity, Crisp finds himself once again back on the posing platform for an art class. One student remarks, "You were a nine days' wonder, weren't you?" Bitchy, Crisp acknowledges, but true. Even so, he says, "I have been very lucky. I asked for bread and was given a stone. It turned out to be precious." His book is a bit precious too. But it is also disarming and, in its way, valiant. The reconstructed virgin may be on his way to fulfilling a childhood dream: to become "a kinky" Elizabeth Barrett...
There were happier things too, about Dreamland--nights in cars with girls whose names were Diana Leigh and Valerie Lynn, girls whose names ran together if their faces did not; of hunting in crisp mornings for pheasant and grouse on ground that crackled as you walked over it. But Dreamland and remained gray; gray shadows broken and heightened by little bands of neon, when the Bells of the past spoke to Thomas Scott Bell at Harvard, calling in his own mind to him above the clutter and emotion of being tremendously alone in a tone of evil desperation...