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...documents, computer messages and memos -- all toted around by him in an aging gym bag. From his seat only a dozen feet from North, Duffy watched for four days as the Marine went head to head with lawmakers. "It was a classic confrontation," he says, "and North seemed to relish...
...raised a Protestant and is now an agnostic married a Jewish woman, Claire Davidson, as his first wife; as a widower in 1982, he married a former Roman Catholic nun, Mary Ellen Pohl. The celebrated foe of judicial permissiveness indulges enough liberality of spirit to relish martinis before dinner and enjoy a good party...
...conservatives on the Politburo compelled Gorbachev to put off seeking endorsement of specific decrees that would put his radical reforms into effect. Instead, the General Secretary pledged to present a detailed plan before the end of the year. As if frustrated by the delay, he attacked with particular relish the subject of slovenly industrial habits. Noting a decline in the enthusiasm for discipline and order that first accompanied his reforms, he charged that "loafers, spongers and pilferers once again feel at ease...
...edits the conservative National Review, writes a syndicated column, lectures widely, composes spy novels and stars as a TV Torquemada on his inquisitorial talk show Firing Line. When he is not administering polysyllabic lashings to liberals, slack thinkers and casual grammarians, Buckley may be found afloat. His relish for blue water and white sails is persuasively advertised in Airborne (1976), Atlantic High (1982) and now Racing Through Paradise, books that, among other things, make work and play look like a distinction without a difference...
...will not try to get away until he knows how it all comes out. But then his imagination fires up. The old proverb may have said that revenge is a dish best eaten cold, he reflects, "but Ronson Fast-Lite had yet to be invented." King's fans will relish the book's gore (oozing, splattering, spraying), and his editor will no doubt be ecstatic about its sales (climbing, surging, exploding...