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...intervention seemed clearer. The U.N. General Assembly voted 108 to 9 to denounce the U.S. move, but Reagan airily dismissed its action with the quip: "It did not upset my breakfast any." (The White House press office promptly produced Reagan's breakfast menu: one poached egg, fruit, toast, coffee...
...containing 55 Ibs. of cocaine into the room and opens it on a table. "It's better than gold," exclaims De Lorean after fingering the packets of snow-white powder. "Gold weighs more than that, for God's sake." Later he raises a champagne glass in a toast: "This is to a lot of success for everyone." Moments afterward, he is standing with his hands behind his back, dazed, while FBI agents handcuff...
...regular whump of outgoing mortar rounds aimed into the Chouf foothills and, every ten minutes or so, the clatter of a Lebanese Army .50-cal. machine gun firing at Druze militiamen and their allies. Each morning before 8 a.m. the troops finish breakfast (eggs to order, French toast and, as ever, Spam). The volleyball games and group jogs have been rare since the hostile fire turned intense late in the summer. Between duties, some soldiers kill stray scorpions and centipedes in the three-and four-man bunkers. When he was out and about during a stint as liaison officer...
...collages that most clearly represent the "French" aspect of his work. He put this explicitly in the title of an early one, The French Line, 1960. Its main element is the top of a diet-toast package torn and shaded into a shape vaguely suggestive of a liner at sea seen bow-on. Its stripes suggest deck chairs and awnings, and they convey one into the atmosphere of luxury and fine-tuned bodies that was part of the fantasy raised by the S.S. France, and first-class ocean travel in general, two decades ago. The diet wafers, the label tells...
Gallagher found the crowd most sympathetic when discussing Harvard. He wondered why, with tuition "in the big bucks," the University forced its students to make their own toast. As for experimentation with drugs, the comedian elicited some hearty guffaws with, "After two hits, it was going O.K. until I met the alphabet...