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Gregory, one of three excellent John Forsyth offerings to hit this shore in recent years, has so many people saying "great" and "super" in quaint Scottish gurgles that one wishes Porky would pop in and mutter some indescribable obscenity. Forsyth is to be commended, however, for his ability to remain bemused at all times, even when the urge to mutter pseudo-profundities about self-respect becomes almost unbearable...
...Tunis in the western Mediterranean. They were a long way from home, and they wasted little time. While the others hovered high over the sea like watchful birds of prey, the first two jets swooped down on the beach, so low that startled and incredulous bystanders on the shore could pick out the Star of David on the planes' flashing silver tails. A volley of bombs and missiles streaked into a cluster of sand-colored buildings squatting among palms and pine trees in the seaside village of Hammam al-Shatt, twelve miles south of the Tunisian capital...
Congressional leaders invited to listen to the speech were predictably unimpressed. House Speaker Tip O'Neill commented that the President sounded as if he was "trying to stall for time." Said Republican Senator Danforth: "One speech does not make a policy." Reagan, however, did shore up resistance by some Republicans against the Democrat-led drive for protectionism. Said Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz: "We have to have legislation that at least matches the President's rhetoric and perhaps goes beyond it." But, he mused, "Are we going to limit presidential discretion? That is the $64,000 question...
...most of the students had left the shore. Until then, it was a carnival...
...doesn't just live in New Jersey. He is New Jersey. He's exhaust-choked freeways lit up by garish neon signs (see "Born to Run"). He's wild nights at the Jersey shore (see "Greetings from Asbury Park"). He's boring towns where there's nothing to do on a Saturday night anymore except write songs about them (see "Born in the U.S.A...