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...Beirut-based correspondents were grim, however: stick together, do not go out at night, and never photograph Syrian troops, who detained several photographers and reportedly pistol-whipped two. By contrast, the propaganda-wise Palestinians were eager to please, providing military guides to protect reporters. Los Angeles Times Correspondent David Lamb summed up the journalists' dilemma with a comparison to Viet Nam, which he had also covered: "There it was clear who the enemy was. But here you can't tell who your friends...
...were, however, that the leaders paid as much attention to the food (salad of seafood with asparagus; truffled grenadines of veal) as to diplomacy. Said Reagan: "We did not get into heavy discussions." That night Reagan played host to Mitterrand at a lavish dinner (sea bass flambe, saddle of lamb) at the American embassy. Toasting his guest, Reagan remarked that 60,000 Americans lie buried in France, where they fought in the two world wars. Mitterrand recalled that French soldiers fought beside Americans in the U.S. Revolutionary...
...pour in every year. The fortress-like apartment towers clustered on the once bare hills surrounding the city now extend to the very edge of the desert wilderness where Satan tempted Jesus; and though the walled Old City surrounding the holy shrines is still redolent of cinnamon and roasting lamb and hashish and donkey turds, the twisting alleys leading onto the Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way) are covered with paving stones rather than mud. Even the cats-Jerusalem has a remarkable quantity of cats-look content...
...that there is any known way to avoid these exchanges. One has books; one has friends; they are bound to meet. Charles Lamb, who rarely railed, waxed livid on the subject: "Your borrowers of books-those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes." But how are such people to be put off, since they are often we, and the non-return of borrowed books is a custom as old as books themselves? ("Say, Gutenberg, what's this? And may I borrow it?") It is said that Charles I clutched a Bible...
...pattern. The source of the first is his fondness for vaudeville, a predilection he shares with Samuel Beckett, a playwright Pinter vastly admires. The second is the inquisitorial mode: a character is grilled, mocked and menaced. The third is the puncturing of rote responses to reveal emotional vacuity. When Lamb asks Miss Cutts how she gets on with Roote, she replies, "Oh, such a charming person. So genuine." When he later asks her what Gibbs is like, she parrots: "Oh, he's a charming person. So genuine...