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...deliberately kept fees and tolls as low as possible. Says David McCullough, author of The Path Between the Seas, a meticulous history of the canal's construction: "The fact is no power on earth could have done what we did. We've done a lot of small, stupid things in the Canal Zone over the years, but we've never done anything operating the canal that we need be ashamed of." With considerable reason, Americans can relinquish control of the great ditch out of a sense of pride-magnanimity combined with good sense...
...yearns to go home, but insists that he will never return unless he is granted the artistic freedom he has found elsewhere. "It is very, very stupid. They think they can change history, but it is not possible for these stupid things to continue for a long time. Americans have this sense of freedom. They say, 'I don't like this! Pfui!' And they make it new! They are free of the presence of history. And in America I am feeling the same way. I am without limit. I make exactly what I want...
...give and receive billets-doux. To kindle ardor in the souls of her readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings: "You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all," a peevish Napoleon scrawled to Josephine from Verona. "Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry," wrote Oscar Wilde to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Complained Benjamin Franklin to his platonic French friend Mme. Brillon: "You find innumerable faults...
...write an internal memo explaining to their employees exactly what Lance had done and why it was wrong, they finally gave up. Reason: they could not decide, on the basis of the facts available, whether many of Lance's freewheeling practices should be regarded as illegal, unethical, stupid-or none of these...
...trouble this writer has taken to reproduce Mary Hartman's formula, she has left out its essential ingredient-compassion. Mary Hartman presented its admittedly loony characters with such affection that audiences cared about them and even identified with their failings. Soap contemptuously presents its people as either stupid or conniving or cruel or some hybrid thereof. With so many unpleasant cartoon figures on the screen, Soap's potentially affecting sexual shenanigans devolve into mean-spirited locker-room jokes. It is not Soap's desire to lather on the sex that lands the series in hot water...