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...Dunhill briar pipe, leafs through the pictures of his pre-Rocky days, a ritual of memory: "There's me in a doorman's jacket I stole to keep warm. There's me with an earring-I actually delivered Perrier in that. Another with my torn-T shirt Stanley Kowalski look. Every six months I'd go to one of those picture machines to see how fast I was deteriorating...
...they have since World War Two, the two superpowers led the way since last June in the oppressive intervention department. Washington continued its frantic efforts to prop up an illusory domino in El Salvador, ignoring past lessons that war torn nations need peace and non-interference, not American guns. Moscow still has 100,000 heavily armed campers bunking down in Kabul...
Caldwell's most moving and Euripidean moments come when she cradles and fondles the two young sons she has borne Jason, then steels herself to kill them in a monstrous act of revenge against their father. From moment to moment she is wretchedly torn between maternal love and a scorned woman's hate...
...clothing and to limit the amount of rum that could be imported without the imposition of a tariff. Last week two other House subcommittees barred any Caribbean nation from receiving more than $75 million of the $350 million extra-aid package. The Administration had earmarked $128 million for strife-torn El Salvador, nearly twice as much as for any other country. One of the panels also insisted that one-quarter of the $350 million be used for health, education and other economic development projects. The Reagan Administration had wanted all the money to go to the private sector...
Throughout the ages, leprosy has been looked upon with contempt and horror. The Bible enjoins lepers to "dwell alone," wear torn clothing and cry out "Unclean, unclean." In the Middle Ages lepers were barred from public buildings, forbidden to speak with children and required to sound a bell or clapper. The very word leper came to mean outcast...