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...Grandparents out there," said Bush in his State of the Union speech, "tell your grandchildren the story of struggles waged, at home and abroad, of sacrifices freely made for freedom's sake." Maybe a speechwriter had just seen Kenneth Branagh addressing the troops at Agincourt in the new movie of Henry V: "He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,/ Will stand a- tiptoe when this day is named . . ./ Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,/ But he'll remember, with advantages,/ What feats he did that day . . .This story shall the good man teach his son." Well...
Bush transferred his Yale first-baseman's mitt out of the lower drawer of his walnut desk to his private quarters. He picked up two new grandchildren (for a total of twelve) and added six puppies by First Dog Millie. The President proudly stuck in his pencil jar a small U.S. flag given to him by an Army ranger wounded in the fighting to oust Noriega...
...faced male nudes anticipated Eric Fischl's anxious, naked suburbanites. Much of the vigorous Bay Area brushwork was reflected, more than a quarter-century later, in paint- happy neoexpressionism. Despite some occasional heavy-handedness, though, the works displayed in this show are far more engaging than their irony-loaded grandchildren...
...concluded bluntly, "We should help those in the Soviet Union who are doing the right thing." But is Gorbachev really a convert to those ideals we consider the "right things" -- political pluralism, individual rights and a free-market economy? Whoever believes that will believe Santa Claus is bringing my grandchildren the $150 Nintendo sets I am buying them for Christmas...
...upheaval in Eastern Europe, Bush has mused privately and publicly about the "historic" nature of the encounter. Flying back from Memphis aboard Air Force One on the day before Thanksgiving, he wondered aloud if the meeting might help guarantee "a peaceful future for kids all over," including his eleven grandchildren. Then, in a televised address that evening, the President struck what was for him a visionary tone. He invited Gorbachev to "work with me to bring down the last barriers to a new world of freedom. Let us move beyond containment and once and for all end the cold...