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Peter De Vries is one of those sad comics with bloodhound eyes who seem to be sniffing their gloomy way toward the ultimate one-liner: "All flesh is as grass." Or "Id is not just another big word." Or maybe: "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." The perfect allegorical hero for De Vries might be a Dutch Calvinist furniture mover from Chicago (like De Vries' father), carrying the world on his shoulders-especially the heavy end with the lode of guilt...
...rookie did not know whether Hannah was serious, but he didn't exactly wish to rile 280 pounds worth of Alabama human flesh. Later, when Brian Buckley learned that John Hannah has a strange sense of humor, he would be able to laugh. They would kid each other about which was superior--the Crimson of the north of the Crimson Tide of the south...
...make her face an astonishingly clear reflection of her character's complexities. It is not merely that this pale face, with its small, amused eyes and its nose long and curved as a flensing knife (when she kissed Alan Alda injudiciously in Tynan, this precarious nose displaced the flesh of his cheek up toward his eyeball), is poised fascinatingly between beauty and harshness. What makes the viewer sit forward in his seat is that Streep is so thoroughly a creature of change. Her expression is shadowed by a dizzying mutability. There is no doubt that in an instant this woman...
Then there was the matter of pressing the flesh. Polk and William McKinley both developed extensive theories about the best way to shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...
Some of the details are agonizingly familiar: trees and utility poles turned into charred matchsticks by the intense heat (temperatures reached millions of degrees at the centers of the explosions); earthquake-resistant buildings crumpled by the shock waves; human flesh burned 2½ miles from the targets. Less well known, perhaps: the sticky black rain, triggered by hot ash and dust blasted up into the cold air, that showered deadly radioactive fallout on the cities...