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...refrain from Stars and Stripes Forever. He is a whiff of a kinder age out of the attic. He is reassurance, a pat on the back, a little belief in every person's dream. He is a do-it-yourselfer in an era of easy cop-outs, a simple loyalist among the sophists, a gauzy visionary stumbling through computer printouts. He is comfort that things are not as bad as the experts say they are. Ronald Reagan is a mood that has seeped through the land like the beguiling scent of honeysuckle on a soft Georgia night. Millions have...
Next, Disney World was a happy and uneventful stop. Then the Dallas barbecue was a hazard only to gymnasts: for them, just to whiff Texas barbecue is to risk going to bed as Nadia Comaneci and waking up as Shelley Winters. Finally, a little regretfully, the team disbanded. "Celebrity's been a big change for me," Retton said. "In a way it's really neat. But it won't change me. I'm still just plain Mary Lou. Meeting the President was neat. I'm a little sad it's over after nine years...
...dock workers dragged into its second week, the truck drivers stuck at the port of Dover grew surlier. By late last week the motorway snaking through the tranquil Kent countryside had burgeoned into a five-mile parking lot, replete with the bellow of air horns and the whiff of rotting fruit destined never to reach its market. The curses grew saltier, the threats louder. Finally, an ultimatum came from the madding crowd: open the port by 10 p.m. or else. An hour before the deadline, scared dock strikers relented and waved the vehicles by. Seven hours later, union officials...
After all the jitters on Thursday, however, financial markets opened calmly on Friday. The dollar strengthened abroad, and the Dow Jones industrial average rose nearly 4 points, to 1107.10. Bank stocks recouped some of their losses from the previous day. The whiff of panic seemed to be over, at least...
British Journalist Harold Evans is both, as Good Times, Bad Times entertainingly proves. His tale has just about everything required by the genre of self-vindication: a spurned teller, shifting affections, the whiff of conspiracy, and a villain who grows ever more interesting as the recital of his sins progresses...