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...celebrity photos. Bodyguard Moosleh Hajim Jabara strains parody as an Ethiopian-born retired pro-football player who changed his name to DeLeon Johnson. LaDonna Holly Padgett is a former Miss Oklahoma and Miss Congeniality well on her way to such titles as Miss Cordial and Miss Bloody Mary. The rub-out of a Mafioso in the mandatory spaghetti joint summons up the sensible suggestion, "You'd think those guys'd learn to eat some other kind of food...
...There's a moral passion in that book that had to rub off any children that sat around the Bok table," says Aloian, the director of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...underlined at the meeting's end as each summed up the discussions. "The road to peace isn't an easy one," said Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, the government representative (President José Napoleón Duarte did not attend). Then, as the government side sped away, Rubén Zamora, the best-known member of the rebel delegation, climbed the steps to the microphones with three colleagues. Said Facundo Guardado, a senior guerrilla commander: "There is an oligarchical power that shares and applies the policies of the Reagan Administration, a power that is imposing itself against the will...
...colleague the waterfowl painter. The man in the decoy dodge calls the man who employs canvas a "flat artist," putting a spin of denigration on the term. Flat art frequently commands a much higher price than the decorative decoy, which often takes much longer to produce. Therein lies the rub. The painter responds that if his work is any good, it is just as exacting-only his tools are different. If he is a cad he may call his work a higher art form...
...F.M.L.N. delegation: Guillermo Ungo and Rubén Zamora of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, the rebels' political wing; Eduardo Sancho Castañeda (known as Fermán Cienfuegos), Lucio Castellanos, Facundo Guardado and Nidia Diaz, guerrilla military leaders...