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There probably is no danger, as some gleeful Democrats would have it, that Reagan last week consigned himself to being "a ten-month President." But there are memories of how small and not-so-small ineptitudes can accumulate, until one day the balance unexpectedly tips against a man. Lyndon Johnson through budget deficits and Viet Nam setbacks was forgiven a host of petty exaggerations, but he ultimately was standing in the credibility gap. Some vague suspicion about Jimmy Carter's competence hardened the day he embraced his troubled friend and Budget Director, Bert Lance. Carter's presidency...
...count: 52 to 48 in favor of the sale. "Thank God!" exclaimed Reagan. Later, posing for pictures, he answered a photographer's request for "a big smile, Mr. President," by saying: "Tm trying to smile with dignity. I don't want to look jubilant." But he was downright gleeful when he dropped in on applauding aides at a party in the White House basement mess a few minutes later. "I came to applaud you," said Reagan, clapping his own hands. "It was in the fourth quarter, goal to go, and you pushed it over. Doesn't it feel good...
...scene becomes a moil of solo showing off, a gleeful choreographic cadenza that no choreographer could plot. All movement is as spontaneous as the music, which soon rides into Going to the Mardis Gras and, at last, into the tune that seems to be everybody's great expectation: When the Saints Go Marching In. A young woman in frayed jeans curves backward, in an affront to gravity, all the while clapping her hands, rending the air with throaty singing- "Oh, when the saints. . ." At times such carryings-on have been known to get out of hand...
...Lady Diana was saying, 'Here I am beside my fiancé, able to hold my head high,' " noted a friend. Holding her head high was admirable, holding the dress up perhaps even more so. Something else was going on here, though. There was a kind of gleeful collaboration by the Prince's charmer in the making of her own image. This business had been left up to the news media too long, and they had got it wrong besides. Lady Diana took control of the process of popular myth in a way that would have made some...
...would be surprised if the general managers didn't have positive reactions--knowing they were coming here to skew the union. I'd expect them to leave gleeful, smiling and jumping," Donald Brodie, assistant executive director of NFL players associations said...