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...article on Withington's auction block were merely a blue Canton platter that had peaked out at a predictable $500, or a coffin-top candle stand already breathing thin air at $1,250, Withington might make a fist in the direction of the groggy second bidder and say, "Pow! He's out cold." The joshing might revive the wounded warrior. If not, it would liven the mood of the dealers and collectors gathered here in the tent behind his barn...
Reagan has become a fascinating phenomenon of American leadership and psychology. He enjoys an easy and sometimes mysterious communion with the American people. He has become a ceremonial presence. "America is back," he told us, as if announcing the return of a loved one from years in a POW camp. He gives America heroes--heroes in the gallery when he delivers a State of the Union address, heroes from the Olympics, heroes from old movies, John Wayne and Gary Cooper quotations in the middle of political speeches. His amiable being--the sheer niceness and normality of the man--seems...
...Cradle (1963), an end-of-the-world scenario, fared better in the wake of Khrushchev's shoe banging and the Cuban missile crisis. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) was, in the expression of the day, right on. The novel was based on the author's experience as an American POW in Dresden when Allied bombers killed 135,000 civilians. This reminder of total war coincided with the mayhem of Viet Nam, and Vonnegut the cult writer became a popular voice of generalized disenchantment. His refrain "So it goes" and Olympian reprimands like "Goddamn it, you've got to be kind" became convenient...
...thing you ever got into," responds Alice, "was your pants." Afraid that she will skimp on dinner to save money, he says, "Then you know what I'll look like?" She replies, "Yeah. A human being." To which Ralph usually responds with the familiar "One of these days, Alice! Pow! Right in the kisser!" Despite her jabs, Alice is Ralph's greatest supporter, and with all his threats, he is crazy about her. "You know something?" he says. "I did hit that high note once--the day I married...
...exulted Koppel. Donahue was the designated baiter. Zap, pow, thud! If the candidates could do that to one another, think what they could do to the deficits, Pentagon cost overruns and those nasty types in Latin America...