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...Cabinet. The trials and tribulations of Meese-Deaver-Baker and Shultz-Clark-Weinberger have probably been covered as thoroughly as any specific issue of the economy or national security. The story keeps replaying day after day like a bad soap opera. Through it all has been the not-too-faint suggestion of an Executive structure stalled and befuddled by ignorance or enmity and always on the brink of explosion or collapse...
...steps. But for the past few years, any kind of dance has been just the wrong metaphor for Soviet-American relations. The two superpowers have been circling each other warily, sometimes menacingly. If they came together, many feared, it would be to fight. Now, suddenly, there is a faint hint of tango music...
...Reynolds' career, especially on his own network, ABC, can be understood, in a way, in human terms. Colleagues reach for any device to say so long to a fine man. However, television, as its high priests keep insisting, is a public trust, a servant. But there was the faint echo in all of the Reynolds tribute of the television anchor fraternity telling the nation that they stand astride civilization and ride in the company of Presidents, Prime Ministers and Popes. They rule...
...FAINT UNEASINESS hangs over all Frederick Barthelme's short stories, a subtle, inescapable sense of skewed perspective Even reading snippets of his work at several-month intervals--the way most of it appeared in The New Yorker and Esquire--one detects the same imbalance over and over, a sort of ripple in the meticulous mirror-glass which the author holds up to picayune suburbia. Not that the impression dominates. Caught up in the smooth flow of Barthelme's prose, this reader has often dismissed it as a paranoid mirage. But now 17 of Barthelme's stories have been gathered into...
...summers," says Al Campanis, the Montreal shortstop then, the Dodger general manager now. Before Cincinnati or Detroit ever heard of Sparky Anderson, he managed in Toronto. When Toronto grew past the point of accepting the minor leagues of anything, baseball left town for nine years. It returned to a faint but polite recognition...