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...King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, news reports suggested that the President had knowingly contravened the Boland amendment. Or so it seemed to White House Aide Thomas Griscom, who marched into the office of Chief of Staff Howard Baker. Said Griscom: "At some point you've gotta say whoa...
...Whoa, wait a sec, dude, slow down. What about the war on drugs? You're not suggesting that the U.S. government sell drugs to finance the rebels in Nicaragua, are you?" This time he was going...
Frazier's work glimmers most madly when it is accompanied by the element of surprise. Ideally, spectators should be innocently thumbing through pages of ads, entertainment listings, cartoons and long gray lines of print when they stumble into The End of Bob's Bob House. Whoa. Wait a minute: "In the thirties, it was in the basement of the old Vanderbob Towers Hotel. In the forties, it moved into the first floor of the Youbob Building on Fifty-second Street. In the late fifties, it settled in what was to become its final home, the plush revolving lounge...
...Washington was not all gravely introspective. In Georgetown restaurants and funky taverns, the war's survivors celebrated that survival. The lobby of the Sheraton Washington Hotel, for instance, was turned into a sort of nonstop cash-bar bivouac. Hundreds of vets, mainly Army, swarmed and shouted ("Airborne? Whoa!") with drinks in hand...
...whoa! There is one thing. There has always been one thing: money. Even these curried folk can still be awed by the wagering of huge sums. And the bets have never been bigger. They are not made at the race track, however. Now the principal action is the enormous gambles of the Thoroughbred mating game...