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...seven, the image was one of precocious vitality. Whatever their infant outlook on life, whether smashing class clichés or already living comfortably within them--like the upper-class twit who says, "I like my newspaper because I've got shares in it"--these children seemed raring to help shape the empire's future. To watch the original documentary (which accompanied 28 Up in its New York City premiere) is to be charmed into suspending awareness of the depressing trajectory of British life since then. The succeeding films follow that arc; they might be called 14 Perpendicular, 21 Tilt...
...people," he declared, "is a government where the people produce their own history." In countless speeches in the countryside, in the slums of Lima and from the balcony of Government Palace, García has spread the same message: the 19 million people of his hardscrabble country can shape their own destiny, even in the face of desperate poverty...
Coach Ryan says, "He's improving, but he's got to lose some more weight. If he reports in shape next year, he could be a player. Otherwise, write him off." That would be terribly hard now. As much or as little as Perry is, he personally never claimed to be anything more. This may have been his dignity and surely was his grace. "The Perry thing, as much as anything," Ditka says, "made people think, 'Hey, these guys are having fun.' It was kind of flukish, the way it happened." If the Perry thing gave a sort of melancholy...
...that fits in here? Or was it Pia Zadora? Where is my authoritative, I've-studied-this-for-years lead sentence? Please, God, let me discover an apt quotation from someone other than Samuel Johnson. You have to sound as if you knew it all along. You have to shape your column too--mostly Doric, a Corinthian fluting when they least expect it. It's work. Whatever the others say, it's work...
Because of its shape and magic electronic gadgetry, the proposed Stealth bomber is supposed to be all but invisible to enemy radar. Fittingly enough, the supersecret project has been funded with stealth as well: its budget is all but invisible even to the Congressmen who must approve military funding. In Pentagon parlance, the bomber is one of the rapidly growing number of "black" programs. Because the programs are classified at levels above top secret, only a few select congressional committee members and a handful of staffers are allowed to analyze the numbers or even know the purpose of such budget...