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...Lest readers and the Internal Revenue Service get the impression that author and friends were purporting to conduct a professional writers' workshop, Buckley notes that the lockers contained a variety of entertainments and diversions. Among them: a cassette library of movies, including The Wackiest Ship in the Army and The Caine Mutiny, tapes of David Niven reading his memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon; Bring On the Empty Horses), and a model of the Titanic that for some unexplained reason was glued together on deck during a heavy rainstorm. Such behavior might be attributed to the decision to pack...
...Aged Mother. Like a painting of the aged mother, or a play called The Aged Mother, or an essay in a magazine. Swathed in the shapeless dress, the indefinite hairdo, she has become something to be noticed and attended, as if she were forever on the verge of vanishing lest one remind oneself to look in on Mother. (And how's your mother...
...mayor, who contends that he has "never even seen cocaine except in the movies," rejected suggestions by his lawyer, Griffin Bell, Carter's former Attorney General, that he plead the Fifth Amendment lest the grand jury prove a political trap. Young and Bond, who also denied using coke, are prominent black Democrats, and they are eager to clear up the matter well before their party holds its national convention in Atlanta next year...
...hate, or at lest distaste, for the more comfortable things in life can never hurt while you are running an 11-days race in the freezing cold. "You can't think that you could be in a nice, warm bathtub," Butcher advises...
...consider our own arms to be quite sufficient; were we to take too seriously, however, the images of women that we are inundated with daily, we might suspect that we have no arms--women's bodies, as we all know, are repeatedly dismembered and objectified by the media. Lest we be alarmed by this or any other matter, the song goes on to reassure us, "Nothing seems to hurt me when I'm close to you." We imagine that the rape victims supported at the march might have a different view of "closeness" with men! Furthermore, the message "Give...