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...bandages or seated in wheelchairs. Around them on every side, portraits of a glowering Khomeini stared down to discourage unholy thoughts and whip up further support. The grand finale of "The Ten Holy Nights," February's celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Islamic Republic, seemed to uncork a patriotic fever bordering on hysteria. "Iran is in a state of great excitement," said a high Japanese official who recently visited the nation. "You feel a strong, flaming energy in Iran...
...dispute over Grenada seemed to uncork a pent-up public hostility. It reinforced a perception that journalists regard themselves as utterly detached from, and perhaps even hostile to, the Government of their country. Another factor in provoking distrust is the suspicion that journalists care little about accuracy. When the Washington Post, New York Times and New York Daily News all discovered, during 1981 arid 1982, that they had printed stories that reporters had embellished or invented, much of the public took these extreme cases as typical of journalism and expressed delight that major news organizations had been humiliated...
...finally, there was the wit that put it all in perspective. Weaver had an uncanny ability to uncork a brutal one-liner that could knock baseball a little bit down from its high horse. "The only guy that didn't make a mistake," he once remarked to some second-guessers, "they crucified." His ability to laugh at himself and his sport was almost unrivalled in the self-important athletic world...
Just when it seems all of his luck has run out, the swinger finds that his next door neighbor, whose husband is also out of town, would like to get to know him much better. As he prepares to uncork the champagne for their private get-acquainted mixer, we begin to suspect a problem, and would you believe it--his wife comes home a day early...
...billion in Iranian assets had been placed in an escrow account for the Central Bank of Algeria at the Bank of England. Christopher returned to the embassy, telling reporters as he walked in, "Just say I'm a happy man." Inside the building, embassy staffers were about to uncork 24 bottles of Mumm's Cordon Rouge champagne. -By Edward E Scharff...