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...drama of Egyptian Prime Minister Ali Lutfi flying home last week from London, where he had met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to preside over a midnight Cabinet meeting to approve the Taba agreement. But it was a welcome change from the grim tales of hijacking, kidnaping and wanton murder that so regularly emanate from the region. If nothing else, the Taba agreement and the Alexandria summit demonstrated that even in the Middle East, common sense can sometimes...
...suddenly woozy singer? Naturally enough, conventions of the language demanded a hyphenated modifier. "Much-troubled" might have been acceptable, but that adjective is reserved, as are "oil-rich" and "war-torn," for stories about the Middle East. One tabloid, apparently eager to dismiss the celebrity as a wanton hussy, called him "gender-confused pop star Boy George." This was a clear violation of journalese's "most-cherished tenet": while doing in the rich and famous, never appear to be huffy. One magazine settled for "cross- dressing crooner," and many newspapers temporarily abandoned the hyphenated tradition to label George "flamboyant...
...were themselves contradictory. What other age could produce such an exemplar of pious perversity as Charles Kingsley, author of The Water-Babies and chaplain to Queen Victoria herself? Even before he became engaged to young Fanny Grenfell, Kingsley wrote letters to her that were full of erotic imaginings: "A wanton tongue--yet chaste & holy, stole between my lips! What were you doing?--You were secretly kissing me." Yet whenever he felt that his yearnings were going beyond the "chaste & holy" Kingsley would sentence himself to a scourging, and tell Fanny about it too. Her family quite sensibly asked...
Meanwhile, President Reagan condemned the bombing of TWA flight 840 as a "barbaric, wanton act of international terrorism" and said no individual or group has been ruled out as the perpetrator...
Genet was convinced of the immorality of the system, so he had no doubt that his audiences would react in disgust at the wanton decadence and hypocrisy of the establishment figures before them on the stage...