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...Roots." Roots with raunch. As he says in the book: "I like to play music, softball, twenty questions, chess, croquet, house, and around." In the vocabulary of a courtly hipster, he records his struggles with concupiscence ("Her temptation was awaiting my default and ate at my ethics like an itch"), though he does admit that one night he declined an invitation to visit the hotel room of an amorous Little Richard. Chapters are devoted to each of Berry's three jail terms (for armed robbery as a teenager, for a Mann Act violation in the '60s and for tax evasion...
Time for a change. The country feels it in its bones as summer rushes in and President Reagan rushes out. It is the seven-year presidential itch. The ebb of power is melancholy reality, the days of glory meticulously numbered. Air Force One, soon to be replaced by a grander, fancier model, sits in its hangar eager for a last run around the track. So hail and farewell, Mr. President, and good luck and fun in Europe. The fresh faces of James Madison High School in Vienna, Va., cheer him off from the sweet sweep of the South Lawn...
...quality to the violence -- a terrible beauty, as the impressionable might put it. It also implies that beneath the director's wolfish exterior there lurks a sheepish artist as well as an existential philosopher eager to prove that morality is a sometime thing, determined by a trigger finger's itch...
Many have accused the press of devoting too much space to the story. Some have blamed bias, others the press's itch to sensationalize. In fact, because the story has thus far lacked Watergate's drama and turned on the accumulation of details, newspaper stories ran at such length that they came to be of interest primarily to scandal junkies. But the press was not so much overplaying the story as playing catch-up in doing its job. It took the Tower commission report to make the story big and clear again...
...several hundred Peking students marched to Tiananmen Square, ostensibly to protest Japan's growing role in the Chinese economy, but also to attack corruption and nepotism among China's ruling elite. This autumn, when student restiveness started up again, it was at first dismissed as the annual student itch. Not until the movement spread early last month to Shanghai (pop. 12 million), with its 200,000 university students and history as a hotbed of radical movements, did the government take notice. Explained a local citizen: "A demonstration in Changsha ((in Hunan province)) causes a tremor, but one in Shanghai causes...