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...languishing in a Swiss sanatorium. Elsewhere in this view of Washington below the Beltway, sex and statecraft are cranked up to date. "The real story at the heart of politics and male power was their wives and lady friends," thinks Deena Simon, the gossip columnist with a nose for news but practically no nose. "Just ask Gary Hart...
...line, the next round of aggravation is built right into the system. The first problem is the natural human aversion to clicking down the hangerup thingy in the middle of a conversation. We have been indoctrin ated from birth to associate such behavior with rudeness--tantamount to blowing your nose in the hand of a person trying to make a point during an argument...
...Hard Nose...
From Washington to New York City, new cars join the flow, upscale Volvos and BMWs. Turning off to the New Jersey Turnpike, the road becomes a delta, flattening, spreading out, careening and jostling forward at 55 m.p.h. The trucks are shunted off to a side lane and traveling along, nose to tail, bumper to bumper, they look like . . . yes! . . . a train! Remember trains? Surely trains were more sensible than this, a 20th century folly, this stampede of steel roaring toward the Lincoln Tunnel...
Though Bishop was beloved by most Grenadians, a bust of the slain leader, its nose chipped off, stands desolate in a cemetery overlooking Queen's Park, where the U.S. Marines set up camp during what the locals call the rescue mission. The remaining leftists on the island are having a hard time attracting support. Although most observers say socialism has run its course in Grenada, skeptics contend that many leftist sympathizers are simply lying...