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Bakker sits in a corner of the white couch in his trinket-filled Spanish- style living room, looking like a schoolboy with bad grades. His hands are clasped between his knees, and his eyes remain fixed on the large black leather Bible spread before him. His pasty white face carries a sad, dazed expression. He is plainly shaken by his fall from grace. "We've almost died," he says. "I want to tell you . . . the first five weeks was like living hell." He pauses and touches the Bible. "At times we really wished they would have put a bullet...
Shortly thereafter, Poindexter appeared to have decided to relieve North of the contra "account." North was wounded, but responded with an artful memo in which he played the chastened schoolboy, managing to sound contrite and defiant at the same time: "Since I returned a few minutes ago I have been told that even my luncheon with my sister yesterday is in question . . . I can understand why you may well have reservations about both my involvement in Nicaragua policy and even my continued tenure here . . . I want you to know that it is for me, deeply disappointing to have lost your...
Khashoggi's flamboyant life-style, besides gratifying his own inclinations, is a calculated element in his way of doing business. "Flowers and light attract nightingales and butterflies," he says, a metaphor he prefers to the more homespun "catching flies with honey." As a schoolboy in Egypt, he would earn $100, save half and use the rest to throw a party. He would be broke the next week, but, he says, "I would make a good impression, and all week everyone would invite me over." Some 15 years ago, he chartered a yacht and sailed to Sardinia, docking it between Aristotle...
...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin and pauper-poor is S.J. Perelman . . . that he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies . . . that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
...disported himself so well -- and, not incidentally, sold out the hall every night -- that this year he was asked back to star in The Magistrate, a Victorian farce. Edward manfully summons up the sullen shallowness of a 19-year-old rogue being passed off as a 14-year-old schoolboy, then trips up, literally ; and figuratively, during a hilarious escape scene. Theatrical fate, though, can be cruel: a popular local comedian was packing them in last week in the same role at nearby Aberdeen. So seats to see the Prince of players were going begging...