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Francis Cornish is another one of those great Davies characters, a child of the old world lost in the new. Cornish is dead before the book begins and his story is told by the Daimon Maimas and the Recording Angel, two medieval creatures who have overseen his life. Under their influence, Cornish has lead a decidedly bizarre existence. His parents essentially abandon him at the beginning of this century to be raised in a miniscule Canadian town by his Catholic great aunt who bootlegs Catholicism to him against the wishes of his resolutely Anglican father...
...Basinger), and May, despite her habit of kicking Eddie in the crotch, loves him in return. But it seems Eddie's been horsing around with a pistol-packing millionaire countess, while May's been seeing a dough-faced lawn maintenance man (Randy Quaid). The whole seedy business is overseen by an alcoholic desert rat (Harry Dean Stanton) who may or may not be May and Eddie's father, who may or may not have driven his wife to suicide, and who may or may not be guilty of bigamy. Ahem...
...becoming one of the most beloved presidents in recent memory, Ronald Reagan has doubled the national debt, savaged vital social welfare programs, overseen the most massive peace-time arms build up in this nation's history, and made the U.S. a net borrower nation for the first time this century...
While there have been freshman literary magazines in the past, they have usually only lasted for one year, said Gadol. The Advocate's freshman supplement "will sustain itself from year to year since it is being overseen by our junior staff," he said...
...part of its overall military modernization, the Reagan Administration has ordered or overseen major improvements in all three of the Triad's legs. To assess the changing nature of the nation's strategic defense machine, TIME Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst sampled day-to-day operations in each of the Triad's components. He dived with the Trident submarine Henry M. Jackson off the Bahamas as the vessel made final preparations to join the Pacific Fleet, strapped himself into the cramped confines of a B-52 on a simulated bombing strike out of South Dakota's Ellsworth Air Force Base...