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Shortly after their first session, Young joined Carter again, and the two went into Hamilton Jordan's office. There most of the senior White House staffers had gathered to discuss and lament what was happening to Andy Young. With Carter's arm around his shoulder, Young said movingly: "I have friends here and so I want to tell what I've decided." Two hours later, the normally sarcastic Jody Powell, the White House Press Secretary, was barely able to choke back tears and prevent his voice from quivering as he told reporters that Young was quitting...
...symptom of national decline. As one troubled Londoner complained to TIME, many Britons "have been made to feel that they don't belong to their own country any more." A white lawyer, speaking about a visit to the capital's racially mixed Peckham area, expressed a common lament: "I felt completely alien. I felt pressure...
...Movie children were not always like real children," says Lament Johnson, who directed Mariel Hemingway in Lipstick and Diane Lane in Cattle Annie and Little Britches, a western film scheduled for release next spring. "Until about a decade ago, girls were dainty untouchables, unless they were little mutts. Hollywood had a Latin view of them, the whore or the madonna." If a script called for a very young girl to play a suggestive role, directors looked around for slightly built older actresses. When the film version of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita appeared in 1962, it was considered scandalous that...
...course, consider bottled mineral water the nectar of the '70s. "I've tried Perrier and Poland but I don't like the bubbles," admits Lament Richardson, who works for a major New York water supplier. "I'll stick to the sink." For Chicago Socialite Donna ("Sugar") Rautbord, the decision is the same, the reason different. "I don't want the bubbles," she spouts. "I hear they contribute to cellulite." New York Times Columnist Russell Baker does not admit to that particular worry, but he still weeps over the popularity of these waters: the nonalcoholic beverage...
Marley's face does not betray the fear that those around him feel, neither do his words. Marley is aware that his people are oppressed, his music does not lament; he is only optimistic. Marley's "positive vibration," is what causes the fear in those around...