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...first, he seems fascinated by the Southern notion of kin, families that bind when the shit starts flying. But then he turns to Southern sex, and then Southern drinking, and finally to Southern marriage. The men in this seedy world dominate the women and think nothing of taking a fist to the source of their romantic troubles. They are full of guts and fighting nerve, the leathery types who jumped at the chance to wade through the rice paddies near Da Nang. Watching them at leisure makes them no more appealing...
...proposed design, in later years he simply hired the best designers, the most skilled craftsmen, then turned them loose to fashion their individual pieces. He was a strong and controlling taskmaster. If a section of a glass window displeased him, he would knock it out with his fist. Every product had to pass his severe scrutiny and demanding standards of taste. One foreman told the story of a large window produced to the order of a rich client; it was intended to represent the view from the client's front porch. The customer declared himself delighted, but added...
Within minutes, paramedics wheeled the unconscious Jordan into the emergency room of Parkview Memorial Hospital, where surgeons operated on him for 4½ hours. They found that the first bullet had torn a fist-size hole in the lower left side of his back, sliced through his intestine and exited from his chest. A second bullet had broken into at least two pieces, apparently as it glanced off a chain-link fence a few yards from Jordan. Fragments struck him in the right thigh and upper left chest. During the operation the doctors removed three small fragments of the first...
...time ticked away in long seconds toward that moment when the signal would come that the mission was on. The commander received his orders. The soldiers and airmen were watching his face. He turned and jammed his fist into the air with his thumb up. Shouts shattered the stillness. It was a brief burst. There were no bands and no U.S. flags. The next stir was the big turbo props coming to life-then the transports lifting off into tragedy...
Thatcher flinches from no one. She has shaken a fist at Leonid Brezhnev, warning him against Soviet expansionism. She has served an ultimatum on her partners on the Continent, protesting the unfair financial burden imposed on Britain by the European Community. She has taken on Britain's powerful trade unions, reducing them from their self-appointed role as a partner in government to just another pressure group. With every hair and vowel in place, Thatcher may seem to be cut from the same bolt as the Queen, but she would rather be respected than loved...