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Americans, a nation of transients, seldom linger long enough in a condo to give it ghosts. There was a time when houses-some houses-sheltered whole generations in sequence, witnessed them and thus acquired a numinous life of their own, a moral dimension that was once much sentimentalized. It was real enough all the same...
...well over 35 years of public life, I've seldom seen a piece of legislation as mismanaged as this one," he added...
...hobby; most were foisted on him by friends. He has no hobbies. When he is in Raleigh, Helms never misses Pou Bailey's every-other-Thursday-night poker fest, a 35-year-old ritual. Steaks or jambalaya are served, the joshing among old friends is ceaseless, and wagers seldom...
...barracks. He has started to shed some of the military image; in-place of the camouflage fatigues and jaunty beret that were his trademark in the early post-revolution period, he now occasionally wears well-tailored suits. The modest Honda Civic in which he drove himself last year is seldom seen these days. Instead, he races around Monrovia in a chauffeured black Mercedes-Benz limousine flanked by motorcycle police with wailing sirens. A hairdresser comes to his suite in the Israeli-built Executive Mansion each morning to fluff up his luxuriant Afro. As one Liberian official puts...
...grudging admiration. Liberal Tom Wicker finds Reagan "an able and resourceful political leader whose amiable underplaying reinforces even while it obscures his effectiveness." Right-wing columnists feel much freer in muting their enthusiasm for the President. In the territory where Rowland Evans and Robert Novak roam-and where seldom is heard a discouraging word about Senator Jesse Helms and other rightists-the atmosphere is humid with intrigues, heavy-breathing innuendoes and indirect quotes ("Important conservative Republicans in Congress, while keeping mum publicly, grumble privately that the President has lost control of his own Administration to moderate forces"). Reagan momentarily retrieved...