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...steps through the sunlight, and then into the McDonalds, where the LaRouche press secretary agrees to talk huddled in the gloom over a cup of coffee. Ted Andromidas is tired, and a little bitter. "We know the election is in the can--bought, rigged and paid for," he says. But there's a little fight left in him. "Kennedy is one of the most immoral scum ever to hit the country... Brown's not even a flake--he's organized crime. Reagan's a nice uninformed old man. Bush, Anderson--these guys are Trilateral Commission all the way." Andromidas lives...
...still recovering from the shame of the Nixon years in 1976; Carter's "believe in me" gambit has some relevance. His reliance on hazy populism does not merit praise, but at least it made sense at the time. Unfortunately, the next president will not lead us through the impending gloom of rising energy prices and international military gamesmanship with trustworthiness. Republicans, nonetheless, seem eager at this early point in the campaign to make Carter's successful but politically counter-productive strategy work for Bush. In the process, they may change the focus of presidential politics from issues to headlines...
...visit to the U.S., the two stood side by side on the White House lawn beaming with a newfound, very special relationship. On Carter's part, it was first of all sheer gratitude for the most forthright, unequivocal support he has received from any ally; and in the gloom of a dark December her message rang especially sweet. "At times like this, you are entitled to look to your friends," she roundly declared. "We are your friends. We do support you; we shall support you. Let there be no doubt about that...
...Church of Chicago. In a time of laid-back preaching, Davies is a successful anachronism: a consummate, self-conscious and often florid dramatist of the pulpit. A transplanted Welshman with volatile eyebrows and a powerful Thespian gift, he is not a large man, but he fills the brooding gothic gloom of the Near North Side church with his resounding voice, as the late Dylan Thomas might if he were reading Yeats, or Richard Burton would if playing Hamlet. Like the poet Thomas, Davies grew up in Swansea, Wales. He claims that Burton patterned his style on Welsh preachers, the only...
...twelve matters very much," added the little Scot, whose body cooperated by arresting its growth at 5 ft. But the adult world mattered when, after graduation from Edinburgh University, he was expected to prepare for a solid job and search for a mate. The first prospect filled him with gloom, the latter with dread. He wrote in his notebook: "Great-est horror-dream I am married-wake up shrieking...