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...course, there were bad days at the Super-Saver, like when I sorted cases of Super-Saver soda, deciding which ones had too many maggots infesting them after nine years at the warehouse. Shoppers, outraged about inflation and economic inequity, often directed their anger at the handiest extension of the capitalist hierarchy--me. And I had to endure repeated performances of the 101 Strings version of "Across the Universe...
...more lately, truckers' songs-might just begin imagining that the Mississippi has been flowing North all this time. Southern music rose from the common man, but there is nothing common about its variety or the range of lives it touches and consoles. These days "country " is the handiest title to cover a multitude of sounds. At hundreds of festivals across the land, blue-grass picks and twangs its way along pretty much as it has for the past 40 years. The city of Nashville still produces its vanilla-shake love ballads with comforting monotony. Down in Austin, Texas...
...been trained in Lebanon. Yet Lebanon, a half-Christian, half-Moslem country and temporary home for 300,000 Palestinians, could contain the terrorists only at grave risk to its own fragile unity. Every time the government has tried to do so, a political crisis has resulted. Lebanon is the handiest target for Israel, but the P.F.L.P. also has headquarters in Paris, Rome and Pankow, East Germany. Still, Lebanon's jitters could be premature. At week's end Israeli embassies were issuing statements assigning equal blame to Egypt, which "for years has given its blessings to the indiscriminate killings...
...next step was for the recipient to vanish across the handiest frontier, while the Westerner waited 24 hours, then reported to his embassy or the local police that his passport had been "lost" or "stolen." Huivenaar promised his victims that temporary documents permitting them to go home would be is sued without question. But all too often the scenario would go awry...
...appears onstage as a set of initials with some ill-defined, but impressive-sounding role in inter-American affairs. In reality, it does not command the power that is expected of it. But as an organ of consultation and a forum of opinion, it is far and away the handiest instrument the U.S. has for dealing with hemisphere problems...