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...three-day appearance in a jammed House hearing room, guarded by 30 U.S. marshals, was nonetheless enlightening. Understandably jittery upon emerging from seclusion into the glare of Washington publicity, the scrawny ex-holdup man stumbled almost incoherently through a 90-minute statement that he had written himself. But as the more skeptical committee members questioned Ray, he turned out to be a patient, polite and cooperative, if unpersuasive witness. By contrast, his attorney, professional Conspiracy Theorist Mark Lane, loaded his frequent objections to the questioning with such sneering sarcasm that he angered even the most sympathetic members of the committee...
...Rosalita, his classic rocker about a street dude come acourting, the suitor presses his advantage by announcing that "the record company just gave me a big advance." Springsteen often sings it that way. But sometimes, he will throw his head back into the full glare of an overhead spot, grin with pride on one side of his wide smile and irony on the other, and shout out: "Your Papa says he knows that I don't have any money/ This is his last chance/ Tell him, Rosie, I ain't no freak/ 'Cause I got my picture/ On the cover...
...Reds. The LAST pitch. Zimmer stood fixed, staring stonily from the dugout, a Grand Teutonic field marshal in double-knits. Bill Lee was doing some yoga stretches in the bullpen, singing Hindu chants from the Bhagavad Gita. The lights from downtown Boston flickered off past right field in the glare of ballpark floodlights, the green monster stood impassive...
...timing of the Soviet announcement baffled U.S. officials. Some speculated Moscow might have been hoping that with attention focused on this week's Vance-Gromyko meeting in Geneva on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), the dissident trials would be spared the glare of international publicity. Others wondered whether the Kremlin was deliberately testing the Carter Administration's policy of not linking the Strategic Arms Talks with other events. It seemed certain, in either case, that the trials could not have been scheduled without top-level approval from the Kremlin. Said one State Department aide: "If the Russians...
...making one of his rare public appearances to speak at Commencement exercises this afternoon, Solzhenitsyn again enters the glare of publicity that he so obviously finds distasteful. He is a man who wishes to let his books and his other accomplishments speak for themselves. Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, he was prevented from leaving the Soviet Union because of his staunch anti-Communist beliefs, yet still managed to create a worldwide audience for his views. Solzhenitsyn's criticism of the Soviet government and his advocacy of a return to imperial absolutism earned him expulsion from...