Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program will soon have such momentum that there'll be no stopping it, regardless of merit." Says former Chief Arms Control Negotiator Paul Warnke: "What's happening is the rapid conversion of the President's Star Wars proposal from stardust and moonbeams to the great pork barrel in the sky...
...last evenings, the Beaver had gone into a cafe on the champs. Elysees--the Rond-Point--and I was waiting outside for her seduced by that new, added discretion which after dark gives the cafes the clandestine look of brothels; seduced by a sky that was taking an age to fade away and a few precious stones attached to the gas lamps which shone without illuminating-by a whole night blue and filled with whisperings, which brought summer to mind. And suddenly I was overcome by a kind of toy at the thought that I alive was there in that...
...twist between my hands the greasy wadding of the sky...
...revelling in the wine-tasting, the pharmacies, the road signs, the myriad facets of everyday, life with a delight unmediated by the ever-present chauvinism of the French: "The light over the Channel, for instance, looks quite different from the French side: clearer, yet more volatile. The sky is a theatre of possibilities. I'm not romanticising." The central chapter of the book, in which all the themes come together, is even symbolically cast in the form of a conversation during a Channel crossing between Braithwaite and the reader, his fellow traveler...
...dead, is to go back into the Viet Nam War. The force of so many names, the names a long incantation, listed in the order of their deaths, and the specificity of the names, each one individual, and the names seen in the black granite that also reflects the sky and the countenance of the one looking, all produce an effect that is as deeply moving as any memorial, anywhere...