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...part of Pittsburgh). Her father, a doctor, was a strong influence on her personality. He frowned on dancing, yet he once admonished her, "Martha, you must never lie to me, because movement never lies, and when I see your body I'll know you are lying." She never forgot that, and a passionate integrity drove her every gesture. Extravagant she might be, or austere, but never false...
While conflict between the press and the military is not new, the wrangling reached its worst level in years during the Gulf War, prompted by strict rules on reporting instituted by the Department of Defense. But in fighting this battle with military critics, the press forgot about the last one. In order to fight censorship in this war, it has perpetuated myths about the media in America's first "living-room war," the Vietnam War, when the reporters themselves were the chief source of censorship...
While most smokers were aware of which tables were for smoking, not all were (smokers from other houses who ate interhouse at Adams, for example) and sometimes even Adams smokers forgot exactly which tables were which. But whenever smokers were reminded they were smoking in a no-smoking section they unfailingly complied with the (hazy) regulations and moved to the smoking section...
...couldn't dance. He didn't sing. And he bungled jokes. His malaprops and mannerisms endlessly inspired comic impersonators. "Let's hear it for the Lord's Prayer," he once croaked, after a tenor had sung it. During a lavish encomium to the Supremes he forgot the trio's name and concluded lamely: "Here are the girls." Looking somewhat like a Great Stone Face transplanted from Easter Island to Broadway, he would rock back and forth onstage, hands across chest or clutching his kidneys, while in baleful voice he introduced a succession of comedians, jugglers, rock bands and animal acts...
...speech to the American people, the president said he had learned the lesson of Vietnam, that a half-hearted military effort is doomed to fail. But Bush forgot some of the other lessons of Vietnam: don't fight for ill-defined goals; don't obscure your war aims just to maintain public support; don't confuse public support for the troops with support for the war. Unfortunately, Bush has already made all of these mistakes...