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Time for a change. The country feels it in its bones as summer rushes in and President Reagan rushes out. It is the seven-year presidential itch. The ebb of power is melancholy reality, the days of glory meticulously numbered. Air Force One, soon to be replaced by a grander, fancier model, sits in its hangar eager for a last run around the track. So hail and farewell, Mr. President, and good luck and fun in Europe. The fresh faces of James Madison High School in Vienna, Va., cheer him off from the sweet sweep of the South Lawn...
...remoteness of your tiny barbarian island, cut off as it is from the world by so many wastes of sea." Modern British art, that is to say, tended toward the provincial, the marginal, the literary and the cute; it cultivated nuance and eccentricity at the expense of broader and grander pictorial concerns; it was anecdotal and too much tied to a fascination with human society -- little-island art, not really comparable to the utterances of those Hectors of the prairie and Ajaxes of the long white loft who, in New York City, were busy using...
...bracing variant on his favorite sort of central figure. Perhaps Weir saw in this sacred monster the makings of dark comedy; Allie is a compendium of the cliches of liberaloid social criticism, rich in potential self-parody. For besides creating an Eden for his family, Allie has another, grander dream: the construction of a huge ice-making facility he has designed. Surely there is something funny about a man building an ice palace to serve a few hundred natives who have happily survived for centuries without...
...first kiss, it seems, is a "one-celled organism" that evolves "into something rather grander--a bird of paradise, for example." Falling in love involves "a kind of inward lurch," as if one "were having a dream about falling off a ledge." Adultery, despite its dazzle and heat, gets polished off as "limited doting, restricted thrall...
...residence is a ten-room villa with five acres of land, a tennis court and a swimming pool. But the former dictator has even grander designs in the region, namely, a $7 million chateau nearby with 240 acres. Duvalier's arrival was met with local protests. While authorities deny that Baby Doc will be permitted to live in France permanently, no country has yet offered him refuge, and the French seem resigned to letting him stay on--at least long enough to get his backhand in shape...