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Bush admits his new buoyancy is partly a deliberate tactic. "I used to think I should keep quiet and others would blow my horn," he explains with a wry grin. "But they didn't. So I will." Now Bush rarely misses a chance to tick off highlights of his career. One of the war's youngest pilots, winning his Navy wings at 18. Shot down over the Pacific and four hours adrift at sea before being rescued by a submarine crew. Three air medals and the DFC. Phi Beta Kappa at Yale. Creator of an independent off shore...
Already the flames of anti-Western fanaticism that Khomeini fanned in Iran threaten to spread through the volatile crescent of crisis that stretches across the southern flank of the Soviet Union, from the Indian subcontinent to Turkey and southward through the Arabian Peninsula to the Horn of Africa. Most, particularly, the revolution that turned Iran into an Islamic republic whose supreme law is the Koran is undermining the stability of the Middle East, a region that supplies more than half of the Western world's imported oil, a region that stands at the strategic crossroads of superpower competition...
...pain, hopelessly shy, wandering alone in her own world of phonograph music, long winter walks and dear glass creatures. Williams is at pain to show that she most resembles her favorite glass friend, a tiny unicorn--"aren't they extinct in the modern world?" who is "crippled" by his horn but loses it in an accident, suddenly, like all the other glass horses, less freakish...
Laura loses her horn when Jim, a friend of Tom's conquers her shyness by whirling her on the dance floor and warming her to a slow kiss. Jim's visit is the play's climax, the culmination of a search for a "gentleman caller" for Laura, a visitor from the outside who might show her another--married--life. And to Amanda, he is a mythically important guest, for he reflects the ultimate in preparing for the future, just as she once planned for the future by entertaining 17 gentleman callers in one afternoon. Like Amanda, who chose wrong from...
...horn, my stick and rope to be put in my casket with...