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...simultaneously high and low points involve hitting the dirt: at the southern end of the airport compound, snipers are as close as 150 yds., and incoming grenades and light rockets occasionally fall near by. At night it is cool and damp. The lush sound of the Mediterranean surf is punctuated by the regular whump of outgoing mortar rounds aimed into the Chouf foothills and, every ten minutes or so, the clatter of a Lebanese Army .50-cal. machine gun firing at Druze militiamen and their allies. Each morning before 8 a.m. the troops finish breakfast (eggs to order, French toast...
...abundant fantasy on the screen is a mere sliver of Lucas' imaginary universe. Behind any creature may be a little volume of fable or cultural anthropology. Chewbacca is a favorite of Lucas', and he can go on and on about the Wookie tribe. They come from a damp jungle planet where they reside in tree houses and live to be 350 years old. The six-breasted females deliver their offspring in litters. After an invasion by Imperial forces, which may be alluded to in the "prequel," the Wookies were rounded up by slave traders and sold throughout...
...then he led me silently out of the labs, past the rhinoceros statues and the law school and Mem Hall and across the Yard into Widener, up to the reading room, into the stacks, down the elevator to level D, where it is damp and nobody goes, and we made love on the floor of the section marked Sports and Games...
...Harvard still overpowered the Big Green, despite damp court conditions. Even though Captain Adam Beren did not travel to Dartmouth and the lineup had to be shifted up, the Crimson lost only one singles and one doubles contest...
Nonetheless, the Reagan Administration by midweek concluded that the melodious mood music might just prove soothing enough to produce an unwarranted euphoria in the nation and world. Accordingly, Washington moved to damp it down. At a Thursday news conference held for that purpose, Secretary of State Shultz asserted that "signals are fine" and the U.S. appreciated the "great courtesy" that Andropov had shown toward himself and Bush, but "the thing we are really looking for . . . is the substance of change in behavior." As Shultz noted, no sooner had Brezhnev been laid to rest than "it was as though someone threw...