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...live from Rome for a week in early April, then Gumbel traveled solo to Viet Nam to mark the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover. In late May the Today stars and staff -- 47 people in all -- traveled 2,500 miles on a specially outfitted train through the American heartland, stopping off to beam the show live from Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. What might have been merely a promotional stunt turned into an enticing Baedeker of American urban life and the country's romance with the rails. The show did not simply dwell on the sunny side...
...mission also proves dicey for Berger. His writing, as always, is polished, but some vital tension is missing from Nowhere. The author's style of fastidious disdain -- half repelled, half fascinated -- seems to need a setting of solid, preferably seamy realism, like Reinhart's tacky heartland or Neighbors' fringe suburbia. Free floating over the fantastic topography of Saint Sebastian, he tends to lose his sting. Moreover, between streaks of zaniness, Berger allows Wren to lapse into his old college lecturing habits. Underlining a point about Saint Sebastian's preposterousness that would be best left implicit, Wren asks, "Did things make...
...Eindhoven airport welcome, there were 7,000. In 's Hertogenbosch, parking was provided for 80,000 cars; 8,000 people were on hand. About 50,000 worshipers, most of them elderly, clustered before the huge altar at the open-air Mass in Maastricht, in the southern Catholic heartland; 150,000 had been expected. Some commentators explained that it is difficult these days to get the Dutch to leave their homes for any public event. Nonetheless, there was no masking the planners' disappointment. Aides of the Pope said he felt "sequestered" and was dissatisfied with the way the visit was organized...
...figure that any place in from the coasts and not in Chicago is more or less the same. It turns out that the Midwest thinks of itself as more than one big lowa farm. I have learned the hard way that the people who live in America's heartland are less than comfortable with my gross generalizations, but at first. I couldn't understand why they took such offense at my remarks...
...tripped. Only a few detonated, though witnesses from both armies insisted that the span lifted off its stone foundations, then settled back down. Before the Germans could set more explosives, the Americans had taken the bridge and crossed the river, the last natural barrier between them and the German heartland...