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...convinced that those words had been written by Jaruzelski himself out of an obvious worry that his unseasoned young army might lose control of the situation. As Poles faced their bleakest Christmas since World War II, a dreadful stillness settled across the land. The days seemed colder, the nights darker, the streets emptier. The quiet was broken only occasionally, most often by the rumble of armored personnel carriers. But every so often, as it has for centuries, a familiar anthem would rise from some church, apartment building or worker's cottage: "Poland is not yet lost..." ?By William...
Stonefaced, the referee held his ground. "The call is let, Mr.Khan." Khan thought about that for a minute. Khan's face grew darker, and his wieldy chest larger at the absence of justice in the world. Something unprecedented was about to erupt...
...past, the world had always been a bit too speedy for Reinhart. He survived marital and fiscal disasters by waddling through the door to enlightenment before he was really ready. When last seen, Reinhart was scouring a disco called the Gastrointestinal System for his shady boss in an even darker, cryogenic body-freezing scheme. Now, as the slimmed-down chef on a local TV cooking show, his main concern is whether the sliced mushrooms will brown in their lemon-juice bath. At last he can afford to reflect: "The best defense against any moral outrage is patience; wait a moment...
Eight years after his death, Lyndon Johnson remains one of the most compelling, infuriating and least understood visionaries ever to fill the presidency. In the October issue of the Atlantic, Biographer Robert Caro details the darker side of L.B. J. He charges that Johnson was sent "envelopes stuffed with cash" while he was Vice President, and that as President, Johnson misused the power of his office to build a personal fortune. Johnson, writes Caro, "died with the American people still ignorant not only of the dimensions of his greed but of its intensity...
...life. CBS appears to assume that Hillbillies appealed chiefly to yokels, dullards and children, when in fact it was a secret favorite of some college professors and was indebted to the populist film comedies of Frank Capra. It was the story of got-rich-quick innocents coping with the darker side of the American Dream-the fear that even with money and social access they could never belong. Eleven years later, the Clampetts are settled, even smug, with no remaining sense of wonder about the world. CBS has concocted a wacko two-hour plot about using moonshine to replace gasoline...