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...windshield mixed the city with the sky, making the outline of the buildings nearly indistinguishable and their colors a forbidding grey. He mumbled of Conrad, of Zen and motorcycle maintenance, of his friend Robert Pirsig and his aircraft. I opened the door at the air terminal and turned to shake his hand and say "Thank you. You've been incredibly kind." But he turned with a miserable smile, "Tuan Jim," he half-mumbled and half-laughed. I slammed the door...
...Plaza," "No-One Driving," and "A Blurred Girl," among others, succeed in part because these simple lyrics never stoop to simple-mindedness. Foxx, also varies the tracks, using his voice in more ways than you can shake a stick at. On "Plaza," he sings completely off key with a surprisingly effective result. A lot of thought has gone into the presentation of his basically unmalleable voice, and to almost universally excellent results...
...firing of Campaign Manager John Sears. "To someone following the Reagan camp so closely, the departure did not come as a complete sur prise," said Barrett. "Two weeks earlier you could detect a decided cooling of the Reagan-Sears relationship." Barrett therefore had a head start in investigating the shake-up and even managed to inter view William Casey before he was in stalled as Sears' successor. Barrett also found an opportunity to share some of his insights with a newcomer to the Reagan press corps. Just before the big formal an nouncement of the staff dismissals, Bar rett...
...restaurant menu, not just an abbreviated room-service version, must be available to Reagan and Nancy; the lectern from which the 6-ft. 1-in. Reagan is to give any formal speech must be precisely 43 in. high. But there was angry infighting that led to last week's shake-up (see box), and there are odd gaps. Strangely enough for a candidate with Reagan's acting experience, there is no one in overall charge of preparing TV commercials; the first two taped for the New Hampshire campaign had to be discarded because they dealt exclusively with domestic policy...
Sickened, disbelieving, yet still we cannot shake a vague guilt, in the back of our minds behind the liberality and self-righteousness, a suspicion that in some way we are implicated...