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...went to the Clown Priest. I told him that I had lost my friend. The Priest looked at his Clown books and then named my condition. In a very solemn way--as priests are prone to do because they are priests--he told me that I should put my faith in the Clown God. If I believed in the Clown God, he would forgive me. Although the clown God could not tell me how to be a Clown, he could tell me through his Clown Priests how to goto Clown Heaven...
...personal favorite was a hypnotic version of "Goodnight Saigon," Joel's ode to the Vietnam veteran, which began with the pounding sounds of helicopters and combined searchlights that swept the audience with Joel's solemn piano chords. Not a cheery moment, but a moving...
Intrigued as well as irritated, Bush kept up his character study throughout the two-day summit in San Jose. The night that El Salvador's Alfredo Cristiani criticized Ortega publicly, Bush looked down the table to his right at the tilted chin, the solemn profile of the Nicaraguan President. "He just stared off into the distant horizon," Bush recalled. "There was in the room a sense of total outrage at what Ortega had done...
Earlier in the week six independent opposition groups had called for "quiet and solemn celebrations" throughout the country on the anniversary. Officials, fearing that the unauthorized gatherings could easily turn into giant antigovernment protests, sought to block them. To make sure that shops were well stocked during the week before the anniversary, authorities released onto the market large supplies of normally unobtainable imported bananas and oranges. "They continue to dangle these things in front of the populace as an incentive for political acquiescence," said a Western diplomat in Prague. "But it is clearly becoming harder and harder for them...
Charlie Cormay of Sudbury said, "When they first said they had problems, everybody was just kind of joking about it. Once we realized there was going to be a crash landing, everybody got pretty solemn...