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...darkness descended at the tender age of eight. Fitch, now 19, spent his early years imagining that historical figures such as Czar Nicholas II lived at his home. He insisted on dressing formally at all times, in a coat and tie or in historical costumes, and he avoided the gaze of people pictured on magazine covers. Watching him boogie the night away at the prom, his mother recalled the last time she had seen her son near a dance floor, six years earlier: "We went to a wedding, and he hid in an alley most of the evening and begged...
...other thing. Until recently, some Yeltsinophobes at the National Security Council continued to gaze upon portraits of Gorbachev at work. Maybe it's time to take them down...
Joan Didion turns her deadly gaze on the 1980s...
...remark is not only rough, it's wrong. Nancy Reagan's gelid smile and fixed gaze are foreign to Robinson, who really sparkles when she meets people. She has a thrilling, throaty laugh, but quips are not her style. Her brothers and old friends insist that she can top tall stories with the best of them -- and that in a land where the gab is the biggest gift of all. Around a dinner table, she and her husband often talk vehemently and at once, taking different verbal paths to the same end -- rather like characters in an opera...
...beach itself is nearly deserted. Only a few sunbathers and lone man and his metal detector were around on a recent weekday afternoon. A favorite pastime of the local seems to involve eating lunch in their parked cars as they gaze out at the sand. Not quite "Beach Blanket Bingo...