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During the hourlong forum, Lewis defended the rights of flag burners and shock-jock Howard Stern, and criticized attempts to regulate speech on college campuses...
...felt he got cheated and I got cheated," says John Pinto, 25, of Chicago. Other fans suspended belief. "I was waiting for him to come back to life," says Gabrielle Brechner, 17, a senior at Manhattan's Dalton School, "the way they always do in the movies." The shock arose less from the apparent stupidity of Phoenix's death than from the stanching of both a munificent acting gift and a winning screen personality...
...even though, unlike Warhol, he kept his own distance from the ad industry as an artist and never offered himself to it as a celebrity. Thus for the young, Lichtenstein must seem to have been around forever, while for the middle-aged there is no recapturing that first shock of seeing big, painted comic strips on a gallery wall back in the early...
...reporter gives him a lift. Sitting on the side of the road when they arrive is Gary Pattengill, in some sort of shock. BOOOM! The fire from the hills is devouring the trailer homes one by one, and each time it hits a propane-fuel tank, a tremendous explosion sends flame and shrapnel into the air. "That's incredible," says Pattengill, 53, a recently laid-off sales manager, raising an eyebrow. He too was stopped at the roadblock, and stayed, mesmerized by the destruction. BOOOM! Finally, a piece of shrapnel lands a few yards from Pattengill. "I think...
Impish and paunchy, with a shock of white hair and the rumpled look of a blanc manan (white man) who has lived in the tropics too long, Lynn Garrison describes himself simply, if cryptically, as "a friend of Haiti." But this is a "friend" with unusual connections. Frequently Garrison can be spotted scampering along the colonnaded balcony of military headquarters in Port-au- Prince before slipping into the office of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, Haiti's military ruler. Even when the Haitian military was bracing for a U.S. Marine landing last month, harried and grim-faced senior commanders still paused...