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...northern Lebanon. On the Friday before Rosenblatt's arrival, the Israelis dealt West Beirut the heaviest bombing and shelling of the war to that point. That same day Alexander Haig resigned and Philip Habib announced a "permanent cease-fire." On June 27, Israeli jets dropped a shower of pink leaflets, warning all civilians to get out of the city at once. Rosenblatt's journal begins the following morning...
...when it was hit by a phosphorous bomb. His face glows pink where the layers of skin have been burned away. It seems wrapped in cellophane. Said's head is swathed in bandages. He looks surprised, open-eyed, as if amazed at the removal of his face. He makes removal of his face. He makes candies for a living...
...England, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. In standard police clothing and cruiser, Hackett and Dwight then casually drive the 15 blocks to the Gateway Arch. Once backstage, Dwight looks around, then begins to peel the blue to reveal a black matador outfit trimmed with gold sequins, a gold belt and a pink sash, and his true identity for more than a decade: Elton John, 35. The crowd gets its man, but the police lose a future New Centurion. Says Hackett wistfully: "He looks pretty good in uniform...
...numbers mark distance traveled and distance yet to go. Eighty percent of all women who work hold down "pink-collar jobs" and get paid about 660 of a man's dollar. Seventy percent of all classroom teachers are women, yet for the same job, they make an average of $3,000 a year less than their male colleagues. More than a third of all candidates for M.B.A. degrees are women: the numbers encourage. Only 5% of the executives in the top 50 American companies are women: the numbers numb. Where once, even recently, there was nothing, all those statistics...
Advocates often showed a curious blend of naivete and arrogance. There was a failure initially to recruit nonworking and minority women. Nonprofessional pink-collar workers felt put down. Women who had "made it" economically also felt estranged. When it came to lobbying legislators, ERA supporters could be appallingly inept. In Illinois, a woman offered a legislator a $1,000 bribe. In Georgia, a state representative claimed that he had been propositioned in an effort to solicit his vote. And in Florida, pro-ERA workers banged on doors of legislators' homes at 7 a.m. to hand them literature, a state...