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David Dalton, Stones analyst par excellance, looked back at the outset of the 1981 tour: "Like remote planets revolving in space, the Stones throughout the seventies continued to exert a magnetic pull known in physics as action at a distance. Their own removal from action infused their albums with a diffuse electric, reflective, anomalous and prolix sound...
...Jerusalem, New York Times Bureau Chief David Shipler had a different complaint: military censorship. "It's pretty frustrating," he said. "We can go in and ask the spokesman what's going on, but we won't get very much." At the outset of the campaign, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon placed a blanket over news from the front, censoring film and dispatches and issuing only sparse communiqués. Israeli correspondents called it a "fogout" or "grayout," but at times it seemed more like a blackout. In past Middle East wars, Israeli editors were given deep background...
Gracious and well liked, he had a reputation for running the magazine with a cool and steady hand. His tenure was marked by a number of notable achievements, including last year's award-winning special issue, "What Vietnam Did to Us." But from the outset his appointment was thought to be transitional, and before long, staffers were complaining about excessive editorial reserve. "He was fine on the routine," says one former Newsweek editor. "For anything bigger, he had to be coaxed along...
Says Pihl at the outset. "Our summer faculty members are comprised mostly of teachers with a Harvard affiliation, but we also have recruited distinguished visiting faculty members." They are distinguished in that they are the ones who seem to teach all of the courses, while "Harvard affiliated" apparently includes grad students and people who received degrees here. Illusion and reality; tenured Harvard superstar becomes BU assistant prof A.M. 110 is APSC s-120. Does art imitate life or transform it? Whither Veritas...
...with 20 Sea Harriers. After a few losses, three replacements were hastily dispatched, and additional reinforcements of 18 Harriers arrived in time for the San Carlos landing. These planes have provided the task force's only cover against an Argentine force that numbered some 230 planes at the outset of hostilities...