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Another spokesman contacted this week refused to comment on whether Reagan had planned his vacation before or after informing Harvard he would not attend. But this spokesman also offered some insight into Reagan's psyche. "It is not easy to be President of the United States. I mean he is a very, very busy...
...times he can be wildly ironic, as when he meticulously preserves in his bathroom the teeth, fingernails and ear that have molted, and then jokes that "the medicine cabinet's now the Brundle Museum of Natural History." At other moments he can lurch from irony to insanity to Kafkaesque insight. "I'm an insect who dreamed he was a man, and loved it." "Help me," he tells Veronica. "Help me be human." Alas, she has her own problem. She is pregnant -- but with Seth's child or Brundlefly...
...everything set foropening (and closing) night of the stadiumconcert. "I think we will achieve what we plan toachieve," he says, adding, "you never know if itwill happen until it happens." As Walker glancesonce more at the stadium that will be transformedinto a stage come September 6, no hitches are insight...
Vigeland fails because he has done no real reporting. For long stretches of the book, he quotes verbatim or closely paraphrases dishwater-dull documents, never showing that he has done the legwork that would enable him to offer some insight into his topic. As a result, Vigeland has had to pad this book with such things as lists of headlines from The Crimson's front page, titles of memos, lots of names, and idiotic descriptions of office buildings--for example, "The carpet is light blue, and there are large windows in all the outer offices, with more glass...
...staff. Cuomo eventually allowed Ajemian to read passages from his personal diary, which only his secretary had seen. "They are a fascinating look at another side of the man, someone quite different from the one the public sees," says Ajemian. The result of it all: a rare and penetrating insight into a complex public figure...