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Along with Grant's chivalry comes his unflappable cool. Even when he becomes a little ruffled, he doesn't show it, or he lets us know he's in control of the situation with a wink and a nod and a calm "well, old chap, I guess that's how it goes." So much for today's ideal of the sensitive '90s man who shows his feelings, but that doesn't bother me. In real life, that may be nice, but in day dreams, who needs it? He's manly but not overbearing macho but not sexist...
...estimated 40 million Americans have tried it at some point, from Ivy League law professors to country-and-western singers. Yet in some states, possession of a few grams can get you put away for years. What does it do to one's immortal soul to puff and wink and look away while about 100,000 other Americans remain locked up for doing the exact same thing? Marijuana prohibition establishes a minimum baseline level of cultural dishonesty that we can never rise above: the President "didn't inhale," heh heh. It's O.K. to drink till you puke...
...Clinton will have to stagger coverage further to win congressional support. As a first public step toward redefining the terms of debate, House Speaker Tom Foley pointed out last week that Clinton had not used the term "universal coverage" but had instead said "guaranteed coverage for every American." The wink was not lost on liberals -- who already felt abused by the White House's ardent courtship of moderates -- Governors and the Business Roundtable. "They're even waffling on universal coverage," said the top aide to a Midwestern Senator. "The message is that if you fight hard for progressive principles...
...another, shouting out situations and one-liners. Periodically Caesar would halt the schoolboy jockeying to read aloud what they had so far. "Read what?" Simon recalls asking. "We haven't written anything yet." But Caesar had culled the best of their ideas as he heard them and, by a wink or nod, had ensured they were recorded by the most junior writer...
...into some pretty choppy stretches of technicalities: "upper-tree, side-trees, heel-pieces, side-fishes, cheeks, front-fish and cant-pieces, all scarfed, coaked, bolted, hooped and woolded together." But such passages are there for atmospherics rather than information, and they sometimes seem to be delivered with an authorial wink. In one of the running jokes in the series, Maturin, far more comfortable on land than on sea, frequently doesn't understand what his shipmates are saying. Occasionally he feigns ignorance. When Aubrey uses the term "shaped the mast," Maturin replies, "Before this it was amorphous, I collect? Shapeless?" Aubrey...