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...roisterings of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. Playing in a rock band for 20 years is probably a good way of staying in a time warp, and if the legs go first, as with boxers and third basemen, you do not pick guitar with your toes. But the stranger truth is that the Dead Heads have a '60s warp of their own. While most of the band members are now well into their 40s, not many of the Dead Heads are as old as 35, and at least half are in their teens, far too young to remember much...
...When the astrological column in the newspaper, the one that nobody really believes, says that a handsome stranger will soon appear, no handsome stranger will appear...
...system, and root-canal surgery. To her surprise, all the inadvertent intimates within earshot protest vehemently. "It's not as bad as you make it sound," argues a gentleman who is traveling with a box containing a large chiming clock. "So you're stuck belly to belly with a stranger. At least you're with the nicest commuters." He does not mean nicer than Chicago commuters, or even Connecticut commuters. He is a branch-line chauvinist, and he means nicer than the commuters on the Oyster Bay line or the Ronkonkoma line...
...months before his capture. To many of those he met then, he is still a friend, and maybe a hero. That story could make for a sequel--The Falcon Strikes Back, perhaps?--superior to the original movie. The early careers of Chris and Daulton prove that truth is stranger, and more thrilling, than docu-drama...
...people say that's my weakness. I admit I've not run for office or managed someone's campaign. But I've been a close observer of the Washington scene. I've followed it all my life. So I don't come to Washington as a complete stranger, a fellow from below Chambers Street in Manhattan...