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...Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players' new production begins, the lights go up on a three-tiered, pink and white stage, with the operetta's title decked across the middle in green icing-like script: "Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride." The highest tier is a small semi-circle at the rear of the stage: around the perimeter, pink columns support a placard bearing one half of a red cutout heart. It's a satisfying moment when the significance of the set suddenly becomes clear: the whole thing is like a giant wedding cake...
Upon the urging of our host, we walked across a small stone courtyard to the chapel, leaving him to "Manifest Destiny and the American West." We found a winding staircase which led to a narrow balcony to the rear of the chilly room. Outside, the clouds had parted a bit and the sun brought several of the stained-glass New Testament parables to life. The smooth white marble railing we leaned against was cold and damp. For such a small place, it seemed capable of a magnificent silence...
...jumped into an elevator and rushed into his fourth-floor office, a group of students followed in other elevators. As Mackey hid inside, the demonstrators continued their verbal assault in the hall and pasted "Mackey Mouse" stickers on the walls. Minutes later, someone spied the president escaping out a rear exit, and the crowd followed him outside the building, where an unmarked police car rescued him and sped away...
...ambulance that was the tipoff. Few Czechoslovaks paid much heed last week when they glimpsed a sleek, Soviet-made ZIL 114 limousine speeding through the streets of Prague with dark green curtains drawn over the rear and side windows-especially not with a Communist Party congress under way. Senior party officials often travel in such cars with drawn curtains. But the limo was followed closely by an obviously well-equipped Mercedes-Benz ambulance. That was a dead giveaway that the VIP passenger was none other than ailing, 74-year-old Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev, whose battle with the infirmities...
...strike was being canceled. Cheers erupted from the crowd of several thousand workers and housewives assembled before the wrought-iron gates. They chanted Walesa's nickname, "Leszek, Leszek." As Walesa's car inched through the crush of supporters, some overexuberant fans even managed to lift the rear wheels off the ground. A sticker on Walesa's windshield seemed to capture the spirit of the moment: IT'S EXCITING TO BE POLISH...