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...What would happen if I, a British citizen, attempted to kiss your President's Secret Service men? Make no mistake, that "little toy soldier" is a member of the British army and has probably served in Northern Ireland or the Falklands. I do not deny that his dress uniform is a tourist attraction, but a little respect should be shown to the man and his profession...
Barring any tragic incidents, Reagan's muscular foreign policy is likely to remain both flexed and relatively flexible. If Reagan has not quite donned the complete uniform of the world's policeman (the costume Presidents have worn for most of the 20th century) he has been swinging the nightstick as though he means it. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Gregory H. Wierzynski/ Washington
Ferguson Jenkins, 39, the nearest Canadian to Cooperstown, 19 victories from 300, is sentimental about his baseball suit. "I am in love with this uniform," he says. "After being married to it for 21 years, the honeymoon is still there. I am in love with my wife and family, but I've also been in love with this game, with these bats, these gloves and my uniform. This uniform is like my wedding dress. Except I get to wear it every...
...trouble started in May 1981, when Sidney Jaffe, a prominent Toronto land developer, failed to appear for a pretrial hearing in rural Putnam County, Fla.; the charges involved criminal violations of the state's Uniform Land Sales Practices Law by a Florida real estate firm Jaffe owned. Faced with the loss of $137,000 it had posted in bail, the Accredited Surety & Casualty Co. decided not to wait for a formal extradition request and instead sent Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear to Toronto to bring Jaffe back. Like most modern-day bounty hunters, Johnsen and Kear figured they would...
...expressionist figuration offers a way out of the cul-de-sac in which German painting and sculpture found themselves after 1945. Hitler had trashed the avantgarde, driving modernism into exile or up the chimney. For a quarter of a century after that, German artists wore the virtuous American uniform of abstract art, as proof of their denazification. Now they breathe easier among their inherited imagery. At the same time, although there have been many dealers' shows of recent German art in America, museums have been slow to react to it. Consequently the exhibition that opened in June...