Word: remarkable
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...first, the couple ignores a series of bizarre, mildly violent actions by the locals. Jennifer doesn't give much thought to a friend's remark not to touch her because "something's wrong with her." Nor is she troubled by the unusually heated quarrels between her father and brother. But the incidental occurrences begin to follow a menacing pattern: An irate motorist trashes Stuart's car, a rejected suitor smashes his own hands...
Reagan's "kitchen" remark drew immediate political fire, but the President did not stop there. He offhandedly seemed to shift the blame to previous Administrations for the third devastation of U.S. installations in Beirut within 18 months, all of which cost a total of 260 American lives. Responding to a question about embassy security from a student in a campaign rally at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, Reagan said, "We're feeling the effects today of the near destruction of our intelligence capability in recent years, before we came here-the effort that somehow seemed...
...heat over his remarks increased, Reagan and his aides tried to put them in a softer light. After complaining that his comments on intelligence deficiencies had been "distorted" by reporters, Reagan telephoned Carter with what presidential aides called "an explanation." But by complying with Carter's request that the call be made public, it amounted to a rare apology from Reagan. What Reagan had really intended, an aide said, was to refer to "a decade-long decline" in intelligence capacity. Reagan told Carter that he did not blame him for the embassy tragedy The flurry over Reagan...
...than one time dimension in the physical universe. Friends of Sakharov believe the work is genuine and that it was submitted last March, six weeks before the physicist began his hunger strike. The piece ends with a poignant acknowledgment: "I thank my wife, Yelena Bonner, for her help." The remark intrigued Western diplomats in "Moscow. "It's a nice touch, but I don't think it means she is being rehabilitated," said one. Noted another of the decision to publish Sakharov's article: "It's designed to show the world, and in particular his fellow scientists...
Consistency in the central character? As this David likes to remark, "Fat chance." What holds God Knows together, barely, is the enduring vitality of the original material (see especially I and II Samuel), which is both a saga sacred to I millions and one of the glories of Western narrative art. Heller is I most successful when he simply allows his source to do most of the I work, either by lifting large swatches of language from the King James translation or by going against the scriptural grain...