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Opening night of a Pudding show is class. Livery and lingerie are de rigeur and the shine of diamonds mingles with the sheen of vaseline. Though not the well-sifted company of Strawberry Night--the showing to which only members of clubs are invited--still, everyone who should be here, is here, smahshing, absolutely dahshing, spectacle, the 'Asty's opening night. Champagne glasses litter every ledge; empty bottles cover the pool table (draped with a white cloth for the occasion). Everyone waves the bubbly with reckless dash over the floor or other people. The stuff flows freely; those present have...
...stood bareheaded in the cold rain while a fife-and-drum ensemble dressed in Continental Army uniforms drilled before them. Since Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had been treated to an outdoor reception during his triumphant visit last November, the same courtesy had to be extended to Rabin-rain or shine. "According to Jewish tradition," said Rabin, glancing at the skies, "rain means blessing...
Smoke machines flood the stage with a primordial haze. Colored lights flash, and chain-mail costumes shine in the gloom. A guitar swoops through a sonic blizzard that might have been whipped up by Led Zeppelin. Whirling at the center of this musical maelstrom is a lanky, dark-haired lout. He shouts in a girlish tenor, drops his kimono, strips to hot pants and tosses roses to adoring teenyboppers...
...under attack. [But] there is nothing in our culture that suggests we will not in the end defend ourselves successfully. We are the party of liberty. Always have been, even when least true to it. As the lights go out in the rest of the world, they shine all the brighter here...
...Agriculture Secretary naturally agrees. Indeed, his eyes shine as he bites into a cheese sandwich and ruminates on his vision of the American land From Ohio to the Rockies and from Canada to the high plains of Texas, he says there is no place like it on earth-the fertile soil, the good growing climate, a topography well suited to mechanical operation, and farmers with the skills and capital to make the most of their opportunity. In the decades ahead, this area and its people -with its rich crops of wheat, corn and soybeans-just may be civilization...