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Through the early half of this year, Mondale had raised roughly $5 million, just about twice as much as Glenn. True, Mondale's expenses are higher-for example, he had to stage that extravagant sideshow in Maine-and Glenn currently is about matching him in fund raising. But as far back as the beginning of 1982, Mondale had a computerized list of 25,000 people around the country who could be tapped for small contributions by direct-mail solicitation. Glenn's aides are only now putting together a similar list...
...goal. Everyone needs the cease-fire now. It may be destructive for us, but it is for them too. The goal is the withdrawal of all foreign forces. The battle in the mountains has had two aspects. In one sense it has been a sideshow to prevent Lebanon from asking for complete [foreign] withdrawal. In another, I think they wanted to come into Beirut and overthrow the government. Without the army at Suq al Gharb they would have done it. Our army is really only five months old. No one expected them to do so well. I want to tell...
...time is fast approaching when we will have to decide whether this Congress is a serious deliberative body or not. [The budget deficit] ought to be at the heart of our legislative agenda. Instead it is a sort of a sideshow . . . It seems we are drifting into an aimless stupor...
...hard blow against the heart. He saw French come alive and turn a happy regard to the court." What happens when these three characters mix, along with their assorted relatives, friends and lovers, is deliberately unbelievable; in extending two stories into a sketchy novel, Hannah creates a sequel as sideshow. The true star is Hannah's protean comic prose. He can deadpan with the best of them. Says Bob Smith, explaining why he has stolen a dead friend's extensive collection of books: "I never had an education except school." Even closer to Hannah's talent...
...aptly describe William H. Edwards III in his long career as head proctor in Memorial Hall. Better known to a generation of Harvard students as "Dr. Proctor" and Mr. Test," Edwards effected a unique style of monitoring exams which some considered annoying but most found to be a hilarious sideshow...