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Meanwhile, shuttle driver Joseph Freeman '86 relaxes inside Currier Hose, watching a David Letterman rerun. When Letterman finishes his interview with Mr. T. Freeman glances at his watch, and heads out for his final run of the night...
...from a water boiler down the hall. In Russia, a local car, which we are forbidden to enter, hitches onto out tail. Other than that secret compartment, we may stroll the length of the train, peeping into second-class berths (fancy slipcovers) and first (two beds, an armchair, a hose shower, and a private toilet). Even in third class, however, there is toilet paper, a genuine luxury...
Tragically, in the strangely interrelated world of a firestorm, the terror or inexperience of one person often affects another. One resident who lived up the hill from us turned on all the faucets and hoses in his house, then filed with the fire still miles away. Although the firestorm did not engulf his home, a burning cinder carried on the wind came through an open window, and all the water in his basins did nothing. With no one there to extinguish the spark, his house was gutted. And his open faucets so dropped the water pressure that when Mr. Forest...
Making a shambles of the Stork Club or hanging over the side of a building from a fire hose, O'Toole chews up the scenery with the gusto and relish that only British actors seem to possess. Of course, precious few crumbs are left for the rest of the cast to nibble on. They manage as best they can, but they simply don't triumph over the material. It's hard to pass judgement on Mark Linn-Baker; the timorous quality of his nice-Jewish-boy persona seems to have been written into the script, and there's little that...
...than any before it, aims its message to the big television audiences and wastes little time on those who want to follow the fine print. Reagan obviously didn't invent the homely example: Remember how Roosevelt shrewdly argued for Lend-Lease to Britain, justifying it as lending a hose to a neighbor to put out a fire? Nor did Reagan invent the bite-size explanation of policy. Gergen, from his speechwriting days for Richard Nixon, remembers Nixon's insistence that press statements be less than 100 words long: "That way, Nixon said, he and not somebody else controlled...