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This does not seem to be the case for our winter Olympic friends. And so the fabulous footage of downhill racers disappearing into groves of trees, or luge drivers sailing off a bank of glare ice into the Austrian sunset, or ski jumpers Evil Kneivling their way to the hospital, has made me reluctant to embrace the winter games...
...colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee last week, he angrily addressed Chairman Otis Pike, a Democrat from New York. "Do something," he demanded, to stanch the leaks that were discrediting the committee with its friends in Congress as well as its foes in the Administration. With an irate glare, Pike shot back: "What do you recommend? Lie detector tests? I do not know where the leaks have come from...
...procession of stories that make the front page or 60 seconds on network television constitutes the daily brush between the run-of-the-mine reporter and the run-of-the-mine businessman, with the latter caught in the glare of the spotlight. Here is where we are fed a daily diet of authoritative ignorance, most of which conveys a cheap-shot hostility to business and businessmen. Here is where the nation sees a persistently distorted image of its most productive and pervasive activity, business. The fact is most general reporters and editors are woefully ignorant of the complexities and ambiguities...
...doesn't quite seem to get this accusing look that Dysart later claims he puts on to say, "I have my passion... What's yours?" Not that this is inconsistent with Alan Strang's character. It seems more appropriate that he always be questioning and that this "accusing glare" Dysart reads into his eyes be more a reflection of Dysart's own inadequacies...
Night cracks day in Indiana; the sky explodes in Illinois. Chicago passes--a straining of the eye through the white glare of churned downpour. The Mississippi folds under a sheet-white concrete bridge with the decorum of 1 a.m. silence. Iowa flows through the early morning on the wave-crackling radio...