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Nervous humor was constant, like static. A small-town politician half boasted to a companion that "in our town we've had two derailments in the last five months." He chuckled. "Neither one was carrying hazardous chemicals," he said, chuckling again. "But I think our nine lives are up," he finished, chuckling still more heartily. The Rev. Mr. Page told a joke about the Johnstown flood more than once. James Stinson, a former Green Beret, now an antiterrorism consultant, pressed a button hooked to a slide projector. "I hope this doesn't detonate anything," he said...
...Williams pursued men sexually but delighted in the company of women and viewed most of his heroines as extensions of himself, valorous but doomed. In Iguana, Summer and Smoke, Suddenly Last Summer and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he sketched the lives of a wandering poet, a lonely small-town maiden, a rapaciously promiscuous homosexual and a weak boy who failed his family. All reflected the author's image of himself...
...twelve children of a small-town merchant, Neves, a lawyer, was an unassuming leader. Paradoxically, that was one of his strengths. An economic conservative with a strong sense of social justice, he was about to become President at a time when Brazil's economic crisis (a $102 billion foreign debt and an annual inflation rate of 230%) required determined action rather than inflammatory rhetoric. Though he never had a chance to confront those problems, he came to represent for 134 million Brazilians--rich and poor, liberal and conservative--the belief that equitable economic solutions could be found...
Volodya, 30, a small-town schoolteacher in a black jacket and black hat, riding a half-empty bus: "Real change means turning things upside down, and that will never happen. Lenin set the country in motion, and other drivers have stepped in to take his place, but they are all going down the same road and cannot change that. What does it concern the man in the street who is the latest General Secretary? It isn't we who choose them. So why get interested? When I was 20, I was involved in politics. Now I can take...
...multidimensional, he was the No. 2 editor of The New Yorker (1925-30), managing editor of the young and struggling FORTUNE (1931-35) general manager and vice president of Time Inc. (1935-38) and publisher of TIME (1937-39). After leaving PM, he owned and ran a string of small-town Northeastern newspapers, including the Elizabeth (N.J.) Daily Journal and the Pawtucket (R.I.) Times...