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...France, the Communist daily L'Humanité took the opportunity to attack Reagan and to attract attention to the peace march held in Paris last Sunday. Beneath a front-page photograph of Reagan before a mushroom cloud, the paper ran the giant headline: NO EUROSHIMA! But the government of President François Mitterrand supported its American ally...
...transformation, because of a simple curiosity and fascination for that character's doings, he ignores the character at hand, striving to reach through and beyond Toklas, to Stein. Brinnin's goal, the biography, undermines his intent to depict Toklas, alone and aging, in the apartment she shared with Stein. Mushroom Pie in the Rue Christine is less about Toklas and her devoted entourage than it is about Brinnin searching, like his characters, for a vehicle for recognition...
...usually boron or cadmium rods. These capture neutrons that might otherwise split more atoms. But if the fissile material is pure enough, and sufficiently compressed, as in a bomb, the chain reaction speeds up. Heat accumulates, and the material blows apart to produce the nuclear age's familiar mushroom cloud...
...other countries they would be splintered ideologically into five parties. If anything, he was understating the disorganization of the 97th Congress, which is riven into blocs representing regional, ethnic and economic as well as philosophical interests: there is a northeastern caucus, a black caucus, a steel caucus, even a mushroom caucus, dedicated to defending mushroom-growing constituents against foreign competition. In all this factionalism, one group of conservative Democrats has acquired so much clout that it did more than any other bloc to ensure Ronald Reagan his big win on the Gramm-Latta resolution. These Congressmen, banded together...
...year-old haven, which covers 6,500 scenic acres sprinkled with horse-riding trails, tennis courts, swimming pools and a championship golf course. The hotel provided free rooms and services; airlines flew in the guests gratis. The setting was about as far removed from Tehran's "Mushroom Inn" cells as a former hostage could hope to find...