Word: inglis
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DIED. Slim Pickens, 64, grizzled actor with a gulch-wide twang who played second-banana Hollywood cowpokes in westerns including One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Blazing Saddles (1974), but whose indelible screen moment was his cowboy-hat-waving, yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those...
...with the hoofs, a lot like the flyboy who wouldn't grow up and, yes, apparently pansexual too. This last aspect of Culture Club has caused many titters, generated a lot of speculation and produced countless photos of Boy George, resplendent and unrepentant, winking or moue-ing in four-color splendor. His wardrobe is a tip-to-toe tutorial in the applied art of sartorial shock: coats that Scaramouche might have worn had Scaramouche been a color-blind butcher, a rabbi's black felt hat and unorthodox ties that seem to glow radioactively. His makeup is heavy: mascara...
Indeed, the press was by no means of one like mind on the blackout. "Rather than mount ing a constitutional soapbox," said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "the press might better spend its time contemplating why it was not informed and in vited." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat volunteered a blunt explanation: "... the television networks' antidefense bias." Declared conservative Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan: "If senior U.S. commanders running this operation harbor a deep distrust of the American press, theirs is not an unmerited contempt...
That confrontation was immensely more ominous than the Grenada conflict. It raised the threat of nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But the sometimes indistinct tapes and the voices of officials uh-ing and uhm-ing as they thought fast, on the spot, point a lesson for government planners facing any unexpected trouble. George Ball, who participated in the meetings as Under Secretary of State, spelled it out in a Washington Post article published just before the release of the tapes. "Had we fixed on a response within the first 48 hours," Ball wrote, "we would almost...
...result of those actions, President Reagan was forced to abandon for a time his rhetorical attacks on Soviet brutality and go on record as "reaffirm[ing] strongly the U.S. support for the U.N." Fortunately, the Administration came out against the Senate move, which could have eventually cost the United States its vote in the international body, and the House did not back it either. So the Senate vote did not lead to an actual reduction in U.S. funds for the United Nations, despite the harsh claims of some, like Sen. Steve Symms (R-Idaho), that "taxpayers are sick and tired...