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...more American than that? Show biz, not solemnity, is an American hallmark; taste is not guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. President Reagan's aides were concerned that their man would be demeaned by the Busby Berkeley choreography. Others joked about his pressing the game-show-size button to flash a laser beam that lighted the Lady. A malfunction, and there goes Star Wars. But the old actor, like the old gal to whom he paid tribute, seemed to rise above the script, as they say in Hollywood, and share the dignity that she never lost. His words were simple...
According to Kuban, whose conclusions were presented last month at a New Mexico symposium on dinosaur tracks and traces and printed in the current issue of the journal Creation/Evolution, the Paluxy tracks have been known to local folk since being uncovered by a 1908 flash flood. The world learned of them in the 1930s, when residents set up roadside stands to sell both real and fake samples of the footprints. When paleontologists went to investigate the source, they saw dinosaur tracks but found the man tracks too indistinct to identify...
...Spenser, although Spenser keeps company with Susan Silverman, a compassionate shrink). He is also short of cash and careless about his clothing. He is a two-fisted drinker (even though James Crumley's Milo Milodragovitch goes for peppermint schnapps) and sometimes drops his guard long enough to reveal a flash of erudition (Marlowe has atrocious taste in socks but can quote Browning). Touches of class cater to the tough-guy fantasies of the literati. Albert Camus, whose spare existential novels were influenced by U.S. detective fiction, looked like Humphrey Bogart portraying Sam Spade. Hemingway followed in the footsteps of Mark...
...envisioning a brave new world of one-stop networking. Commuters will set burglar alarms, start air conditioners and program their VCRs--all through the digital keypads of their mobile phones. When appliances break down, homeowners will plug them into diagnosis outlets, dial the manufacturers and be told in a flash precisely what has gone wrong. Television sets will interrupt broadcasts to announce that clothes dryers have completed their cycles. Viewers, with the press of a key, will tell those dryers to run the clothes through one more time...
...suspected terrorists. The Western powers, however, concluded that the ploy was a new attempt by the Soviet-backed East Germans to alter the unique post-World War II status of Berlin. In the past, foreign diplomats entering or leaving the East sector of the city had only to flash a red identity card issued by the East Germans. By requiring passports rather than cards, the East Germans apparently hoped to establish that the Berlin Wall is an international border --in direct contravention of postwar agreements...