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...rigors of a very different course that seems closer to Miss Manners than the halls of Montezuma: training to be diplomatic guards at a mock-up of an embassy called Marshall Hall. Social etiquette is the topic as a gunnery sergeant combines a lecture with a slide show. A photograph of a diplomatic reception is projected. "What kind of dress do we say they're wearing there?" asks the sergeant. "That's right. That's black tie." Laughter greets the next slide, showing a Marine presenting flowers to a young woman in a low-cut gown. "Yeah, sometimes Marines...
...paragraphs, the city's restaurants get seven, and "Smelly" Kelly, who sniffed out gas leaks along the IND subway tracks, gets one. Morris, whose customary voice is that of cool detachment, allows a gee-whiz tone to mar the text: "Where else, in 1945, could you have your photograph taken by an unmanned machine (the Photomaton), or go to a theatre on the fiftieth floor of a skyscraper (the Chanin Building), or for that matter get an electric shock just from touching a door handle, in a city so charged with energy that the very air tingled with it?" Certainly...
Readers of London's Daily Mail were appalled last week to read that a goldfish nicknamed George had leaped out of his bowl and taken a bite out of 12-year- old Amanda Baker's hand. A photograph showed the shaken girl holding up her bandaged limb. The killer goldfish, the paper explained, was the result of an attempt to breed a male piranha with a female goldfish. The same day the , Guardian reported that the world's first photograph, some 200 years old, had been located in a Japanese cave...
...race or religion--yes, white, Caucasian, Christian, or fundamentalist, you are blessed in His eyes. I trust you won't let the devil Satan restrain you from generous contributions. And don't forget that donations of three thousand dollars or more will receive a free calculator and an autographed photograph of me shaking hands with president Botha of South Africa...
Rafsanjani said the American officials, whom he did not name, showed the Iranians "a satellite photograph" marked with lines near the Caspian showing areas where the Americans said Soviet forces planned to enter Iran...