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...memories, and the sagacity of its statesmen almost (but not entirely) vanished." Nevertheless, says Barzini, the Britons realize their limitations. Helas, the French do not. They insist upon being treated as Europe's grandest military, economic, cultural and gustatory power. In fact, he notes, "foreigners have to remind themselves they are not dealing with a country that really exists, a country many of them love, with its admirable past and its actual respectable achievements, potentials, and capacities, but with a country that most Frenchmen dream still exists." That, he suggests, is why the French are "best led with consoling...
...every Human League "Fascination" (1983) there is a Standells "Dirty Water" (1966) or a? and the Mysterians "96 Tears" (1966). And for every Duran Duran there is a Fleshtones to remind us what rock 'n' roll is supposed to be about--that is, cheesy Farfisas, three chords, a few "Sha, la, la'"s, and at least...
Time and again you had been told to behave, and you had been reminded of venereal disease as only the military can remind you, and you had been warned about Key West. You had been told drugs were everywhere, but for the last four months you had thought that the only thing you could count on tickling your nose was the business end of a Kalashnikov. They said this was a strange terrain of suspicious sexuality-gays are all over. And they said to watch your self around reporters, who would probably offer to buy you a drink to loosen...
...half resented) slot in the public mind, and of their being foreign correspondents in particular, with all the folklore glamour associated with that work. There is the influence of television, which has aggrandized the whole profession. It may also be that these deaths attract notice because they serve to remind people that risk entails the possibility of failure. It is acutely shocking to learn that risk takers can lose...
Moody joined TIME last year after three years as a bureau manager for United Press International in Moscow and Paris. Says he: "Comparisons in Poland between Moscow and Warsaw are extremely unpopular. Attempts to speak Russian to Poles are rudely rebuffed. And it is hazardous to remind them of Soviet influence. 'We are Poles,' they say. No matter whether it is a former Solidarity member or an official of the martial law regime, they mean just that, and are extremely proud...