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...noted by Peggy Noonan, the Reagan speechwriter who also gave Bush many of his best lines (notably "a kinder, gentler nation"). In her recently published memoir What I Saw at the Revolution, Noonan says the White House often seems, even to insiders, to be bright and grand, all majestic spit and polish. But behind the scenes, it is "intrigue and betrayal" and hardball politics...
...which case, he said, Cuba was prepared to live "under a wartime economy." Says Wayne Smith, director of Cuban Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies: "Castro sees that the world has turned upside down, so he decides Cuba has to circle the wagons and spit on everybody beyond the wagons...
Although a confirmation slip informs senders that their document has been spit out of another fax, they have no way of knowing their messages haven't been stacked in ever-growing piles of thermal paper--or simply thrown...
...like them -- up to date but fundamentally unchanged. The record kicks off with Sad Sad Sad, a creditable attempt to capture again the dynamics of the group's early sound, when the rhythm came in solid sheets and the lyrics sounded as if they were being spit out of a semiautomatic weapon. After that, it bustles through a very commercial, danceable tune or two, a couple of extravagant experiments (including Terrifying, with some heavy jazz underpinnings) and a few desultory rockers, performed with practiced agility...
...Even when his show was moved to 4 a.m., I watched him. I used to tape him sometimes and play the tape during breakfast. He was so funny one time that I spit up Cocoa Puffs all over my table. The milk even came out of my nose...