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...Salle du Sacre (Coronation Room). The men at the huge conference table have their jackets off, and even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a light summer dress, has a few beads of perspiration along her impeccable upper lip. The debate on economic and monetary affairs, supposedly the height of the summit, drones on. President Reagan starts amusing himself by doodling neat little pen portraits of imaginary figures-a nondescript man with a mustache, something that looks like a smiling Marlboro cowboy, and the head of a horse. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan passes a note to Secretary of State Alexander...
...wildering forest, through thickets of paranoia, past caves from which they heard voices-intimate, vengeful, disconcerting. The Oval Office transcripts lifted a rock. The tapes that Nixon accumulated and, inexplicably, never burned, seemed almost deliberately calculated to record the drama of his own unworthiness. It was as if the height of his life's success must produce some penance, some immense undoing, some terrible self-inflicted vengeance...
...tempted. In any event, the affair may have been even more important as a reassertion of official American morals after all the moral contaminations associated with the war in Viet Nam. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus was president of the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus at the height of Watergate. "In the early seventies," he remembers, "we had a group on cam pus weaned on the milk of dissent, convinced that the system had been subverted. Watergate was what turned them around. It proved to us all how incredibly strong our system...
...punishment never came. The student received a letter from Lewis saving that the College had "taken formal action" Terming the entire incident a "family affair." Lewis later explained that the College does not really consider the resolution of the complaint any of the student's business--the height of nonsensical, Harvard paternalism...
Rambaldi's monsterpiece is about the height of a four-year-old child, with a large, lumpy, pulsating skull, a neck that extends or retracts according to mood, skin that is a very alien gray-green when E.T. is healthy, and long, marvelously graceful arms with four-digit hands. He is very strange and complex in his repertory of emotions, although he is allowed only a ten-word speaking vocabulary (his voice is that of an 82-year-old woman with some electronic distortion). He is onscreen most of the time, and he takes a firm, sure hold...