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...minute, full-color videotape...showing Ferguson and Wilson chewing contentedly from time to time on items taken from the packages. "Perhaps it wouldn't have been so awful if the package had contained oreos or Lorna Doones, but chocolate chips hold a special place in the pantheon of American symbols...
Both camps were gone by the time the wet sidewalk was jammed with a Hollywood pantheon of the Reagan generation, full of wine and weariness and all wanting their cars (CHUCK'S PARKING - PLEASE STOP HERE read the sign out front). "Bloody undignified," grumped a silver-haired BBC man, "standing in the rain in an alley in Los Angeles...
...still enjoy reliving their halcyon days when the communist underground inspired brave fighters to risk their lives in dangerous sabotage missions against the Germans. Thus the French socialist president Francois Mitterand, in his very first symbolic act in office, solemnly paid a visit to Moulin's tomb in the Pantheon of Paris. And now, he will have the bittersweet satisfaction of seeing Moulin's killer brought to justice...
...terms of a work force that labors with an almost cultish devotion to the common economic good. That was before a Japanese journalist named Satoshi Kamata went to work on a Toyota assembly line and kept a diary. The brutal conditions he describes in Japan in the Passing Lane (Pantheon; 211 pages; $14.95) seem like something from a Charles Dickens novel...
...NUCLEAR DELUSION by George F. Kennan; Pantheon; 208 pages; $13.95 WITH ENOUGH SHOVELS by Robert Scheer; Random House; 285 pages...