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...documents were carefully selected by the Iranians to support their charges of U.S. subversion. Yet what emerges from the papers that came from the "nest of spies," as the Iranian annotations put it, is a contradictory and confused attempt by U.S. diplomats to comprehend the Shah's regime, the rebellion and the post-revolution government of Ayatullah Khomeini. Some analyses were chillingly prescient, others dangerously naive...
...struggle for survival which engages most of humanity can be less squarely faced. Accordingly, boredom, especially the middle class Roman kind which languidly consumers grapes, sets in. Its 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 colorful combinations provide relief. National thumb-twiddling now has direction. Like magpies lining their nest with shiny paperclips and fragments of colored glass, we rushed out to buy several million cubes last year...
...bowerbirds rank among the most intricately amatory of avians. Some build bowers up to 8 ft. high and paint them with berry juice, using a twig as a brush. The structure serves as erotic artwork rather than as a love nest. If a female is won over, she will build a drabber, more functional nest...
...Securities and Exchange Commission, after a 3½-year investigation of Buckley-controlled oil and gas companies, last week portrayed the family's own business practices as unethical and even unlawful. In effect, it accused the companies of having defrauded stockholders to feather the family's nest...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) d. Milos Forman (Oscar, best actor...