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Unfortunately, this tourist-brochure fantasy is only the beginning of Patriot Games, a novel that performs the odd trick of growing exponentially less interesting with the turning of each page. Ryan returns to the U.S. and resumes his old humdrum life, teaching history at the Naval Academy, with the added burden of playing a sitting duck. For it is only a matter of time -- oodles of time -- until the U.L.A. "bad guys" attempt to punish Ryan for thwarting their plans in London...
Last week an outside agitator stepped forward and concentrated congressional attention. The unlikely catalyst: Ronald Reagan, who had resolutely ignored Congress's budget dilemma after his own spending plan had been rejected by both Democrats and Republicans. Returning from a humdrum summit in Venice and limping from the continuing Iran-contra revelations, the President was looking for a quick score. So Reagan did what he does best: he took to the airwaves and attacked the old "tax and tax, spend and spend" ways of the Democrats. The assault pushed Byrd and House Speaker Jim Wright into hurried meetings with their...
Throughout his private and public career, Casey had been supremely self- confident and aggressive. Born in New York City, he was a postwar success as an attorney, a university lecturer on law and the author of humdrum books like How Federal Tax Angles Multiply Real Estate Profits. Not a humble man, he once boasted, "I was never in a law firm where I wasn't bringing in 75% of the business...
...movie's overwhelming presence is O'Quinn, smiling and snarling his schizophrenic way through this family nightmare. If divorce, separation, and other sibling squabbles are wearing you out with their humdrum irritations, check out The Stepfather for some inner-family tension at slightly higher stakes...
...moved back to New York and to the Times. Eleven years later, she was tapped, despite her initial reluctance, to do the column. Brody has examined everything from the sensitive (impotence and frigidity) to the humdrum (how to pack a child's lunch). She often draws ideas from readers' letters, which she answers herself. "I see what they are and are not understanding," she says. One woman complained that her cholesterol level was not going down even though she had stopped eating red meat; it turned out all she had done was cook the same amount of meat until...