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...writing is crisp, the research impressive, and the anecdotes rich. Alexander Haig, a Kissinger aide who had experienced the effects of Moutai on a China reconnaissance trip, cabled Washington: "Under no repeat no circumstances should the President actually drink from his glass in response to banquet toasts." Walter Cronkite, one of the most senior among the two planeloads of journalists accompanying the President, wore electric socks to keep his feet warm at the Great Wall, but they gave him a series of shocks...
...those afternoons the now-anachronistic Yale Bowl took on a tragic quality, the crisp evening air a harbinger of cold winter—a winter that Yale victories over Harvard somehow seemed to defer...
...ROCKS A little more than most crooners and croons a little more than most rockers, so Merritt never stood much of a chance in the straightforward Best Country Album category. Like all genre crossers, she uses whatever works--an R&B horn section, the crisp guitar of Heartbreaker Mike Campbell--to create an effortlessly seductive record that swings from the cool influence of Dusty Springfield to the complicated warmth of Nanci Griffith...
...Cahow played for the U.S., which lost to Vaillancourt and victorious Canada. Nary these threats, senior forward Liza Solley stepped up for Harvard on the power play. With 5:51 remaining in the third period and the game tied 1-1, the Crimson put on a display of crisp passing culminating with a shot from freshman forward Randi Griffin. Solley corralled the rebound and tucked it in to give Harvard the lead. “We definitely bumped it up. We had a sense of urgency,” Solley said. “We knew that time was winding...
...that you start to wish she'd make it a little harder. She knows symbolism like a Renaissance painter, and so you wonder whether all her world really is a stage, whether she knew that the whole world would watch her dance in the dusty Malawian village in her crisp white linens with the cosmically cute baby boy strapped to her back; that the press would be there waiting, scribbling, flashing when Baby David arrived with a bodyguard and nanny to join Madonna in her $15 million London home. Did she hope that by courting controversy, the stories that followed...