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Like many other computer converts, Buckley has drawn a number of his friends into the fold, and the roster of his recruits reads like a literary Who's Who. He bought one of the first editions of McWilliams' The Word Processing Book and dispatched copies to Television News Commentator John Chancellor and former New York Times Editor Harrison Salisbury. He advised Editor Sophie Wilkins to purchase a Heath for her work as a translator. He regularly corresponds with an elite user group, which includes New York Times Book Reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and Pulitzer-Prizewinning Author David Halberstam. But Buckley...
Edward eventually sees a glimmer of hope. He will seek out Jesse Baltram, his real father, a legendary painter who numbered Edward's mother among his many mistresses. He does not know exactly how Jesse can help him, but he feels irresistibly drawn, by a magic he claims not to believe, toward "the longed-for father, the healer, the hero-priest, the benevolent all-powerful king." No sooner does Edward conceive this idea than he receives an invitation from Jesse's wife to visit Seegard, the artist's house near a deserted stretch of English seacoast. He arrives to find...
...message," Hart says, outlining the lessons he has drawn from 1984. "I'm more convinced than ever that it's not personality or charisma or endorsements or even money. It's message: to say something that people are waiting to hear and want to hear, and that makes sense, and that inspires." The core of his message is that the U.S. economy is "headed off a cliff," that strong federal intervention is needed to keep it from toppling over, but that the spending programs advocated by traditional Democrats will not do the job. Mondale's mocking cry of "Where...
...suspension of martial law marked the latest step in a drawn-out effort to restore democracy in Pakistan. In December 1984, Zia used the favorable results of a vaguely worded referendum as grounds to declare himself President for a five-year term. Last February he called elections for the suspended Parliament. All candidates were required to run as independents, but according to most observers, the balloting was fair...
...hotel rooms as the Las Vegas Hilton. Along the road to Mandalay, the nation's second city, locals pedal away furiously in trishaws, and in Pagan, the nation's great temple-filled tourist site and one of the architectural wonders of Asia, the principal method of transportation is horse-drawn carts...