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...balloons, hangs from the ceiling of the Toga Room, waiting to deliver on cue. Nowadays, though, it's hard to find anyone who can engineer the spectacle. Reagan brought the audience to its feet at his close, looked skyward--nothing. Half an hour later, they were still trying to shake the balloons down...
...main issue in the dispute was the city's refusal to grant firefighters a written contract instead of the traditional hand-shake agreement unless the union agreed to a no-strike clause and binding arbitration...
...attempt to shake his West Coast image, Brown appears on the campaign trail in a pinstripe suit, brushing aside questions about the more unusual elements of his lifestyle. Still, even those who respond favorably to Brown's opposition to nuclear power and military spending are confused by the barrage of bizarre terms with which Brown laces his speeches--"Class 9 meltdowns," "biomass conversion," "photovoltaic generation," and "holistic medicine." And Brown, who is using rock concerts to bankroll his campaign, will never shake parts of his image: one youth told a reporter that he came to a Brown rally only...
...bark drink, and wolfed down alcapurrias (plantain stuffed with meat). As he rode down the main street of Ponce, whistles shrieked from atop the century-old red firehouse and a loudspeaker in a blue van barked to pedestrians: "El quiere saludarte. Dale tu mano." (He wants to say hello. Shake his hand.) They cheered wildly when he grabbed a microphone to yell, ?"Estadidad ahora!"(statehood now). On the next day, he strolled down Calle del Cristo...
...reporters, photographers and technicians. An Iranian official thought the action might quiet American tempers and "help the situation as a whole." Certainly it's some relief to be spared the nightly sight of camera-conscious Tehran mobs who seem to have nothing else to do but shake their fists on cue and rant against America. In a sense, what is missing is not news but staged photo opportunities. Early in the Iranian crisis, John Chancellor of NBC had worried about getting those demonstrators off TV, fearing a "possible wave of jingoism" in this country, but it never surfaced...