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After dinner one recent night, family an friends??were discussing their views on global warming. With clarity and wisdom beyond her 15 years, my daughter said, "Dad, I'm scared and angry. Your generation created this problem. What are you going...
...Mondale pledged outspoken and undeviating support of Israel during their acceptance speeches, and the band played Hava Nagila, the traditional Jewish song of rejoicing. Yet, in these complicated times, there is the hazard that such pro-Israel demonstrations will further anger Arab nations that the U.S. needs as friends???and thus give Carter more troubles...
West Virginians have always had five friends???God Almighty, Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Carter's Little Liver Pills and Robert C. Byrd...
...shuns it. The wall-to-wall mirror on his bedroom ceiling nowadays often reflects a man reading poetry (Eliot and Frost, among others) and sipping a Tab. He is also a serious, intelligent student of film?old, exotic and by competitors. He will still shower gifts on his friends???though he admits he does not know how to accept them, or compliments, in return. Of course, he will still fill an actress's dressing room with flowers, or an actor's with a favorite libation, on the first day of shooting, but the flash of his character is dimmed these...
...reads Russian authors (Maximov, Nekrasov, Sinyavsky) whose works are not published in the Soviet Union. He enjoys the company of fellow exiles, such as Poet Joseph Brodsky and Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. He is a tireless Five-F man, in constant pursuit (in no special order) of Fiddles, Food, Females, Friends???and Fodka. He is a shameless flirt, eats like an orchestra, and puts away more booze than a commissar at a convention. "What I remember first about Slava," says Seiji Ozawa, "is lots of drinking. He taught me how to drink fantastic amounts. After one night with him, the next...