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Organization bent over laughing. Then she stood up and wiped the rouge from her face with my freshly cleaned towel, and I realized that she was Procrastination. Organization had been only a grumpy Procrastination in tailored clothes and cosmopolitan make...
...water around was that coming out of the bathroom faucet. Those waves on the other side of the beach are clearly irrelevant to the casino owners, and they seem to be wishing for someone like Rosie, the waitress in the Bounty commercials, to come along with a giant paper towel and sop up the whole unsightly mess...
Isolated in their cells, the men devise ways of passing items across corridors by stripping threads from cotton towels and attaching a button. Then they swing the button under the door until it intersects with another thread and button from across the hall. Once the link-up is made, the inmates pass small objects to each other. Another way of transferring such items as cigarettes is to tie them to the end of a towel or a trouser leg, and then swing them from one window to the next...
Even to hint at a willingness to compromise at this time would be equivalent to throwing in the towel in an early round of a championship bout. The White House still has high hopes that a vigorous selling campaign will bring Congress around to voting something close to the full Reagan package. That selling campaign is hindered by the President's inability for now to join it personally, but it is still going forward. Conservative groups are planning a blitz of direct mailings, speeches and TV ads to build pressure for the full Reagan program in the home districts...
...Wirthlin called with good news about the early returns. Reagan's response was to cross the fingers of one hand above his head and rap on wood with the other hand. At 5:35 p.m., he was stepping out of the shower, wrapped in a towel, when the phone rang; Jimmy Carter was calling to congratulate...