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Breaking for lunch, Brown and Sprague retreat to the wheelhouse to sip coffee from a thermos bottle and eat oysters fresh from the bay. "Can't find anything better than these," says Brown as he dips an oyster into a potent sauce made of vinegar and red and black pepper...
...fascinating, if familiar, process. When songs have that magic in them, they take on strange powers of recall. Commenting on a Noel Coward song, a character in Coward's Private Lives remarks: "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." Songs eerily consolidate the memory, making obscure chemical connections in the brain. They conjure up moments out of time. They reconstitute things long gone, to the point that smells and images and a precise forgotten ache of the heart return hauntingly for a moment. The dramatization that occurs in the mind is intimate and utterly private. One has only to hear...
...party for those who are disillusioned, no, disgusted, with the way the government has been running this country." A decade ago, Kelly's denunciation of West German democracy might have been dismissed as mere ideological ranting. But the Greens seem to be only the most politically visible and potent part of a vast counterculture movement in West Germany that has reached extraordinary proportions...
...scopolamine's dulling effects on the body and mind. When the pills failed to help Lenoir, NASA's chief flight surgeon Sam Pool advised from Houston ground headquarters that Lenoir also take Phenergan, an antihistamine, and Dalmane if he needed a sleep medication. But the combination of potent drugs is not an ideal solution since it can impair coordination and judgment. According to an Air Force surgeon at Andrews Air Force Base, any military or commercial pilot on such medication would automatically be grounded. Says he: "Before you fly, that stuff has got to wash out of your...
...Connor continues to control the public impression of Reagan's judicial nominations. With little public fanfare, he has appointed 88 other judges to life tenure on district and circuit courts-the federal trial and appeals bench. They, and other nominations to come, assure Reagan a potent legal legacy that some judiciary watchers find thrilling, others chilling. As a group, his choices very much wear the Reagan brand: they are mostly white, male and conservatively Republican. At the same time, as even some liberals admit, they are solidly competent...