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...sprinting, leaping at nearly every conventional conservative ideal no high jump, sailing and skiing no discus throw, and inheriting a large cache from his oil baron father no hurdle race. No matter what his elegant prose, no matter how frequent his careful evidence citations, no matter what his wit and charm, I cannot but recall registering to vote with my close friend. "Listen, C. J.," he told me, "let's register Republican: that means you want to keep your pool and I want to keep my Porsche...
ONLY A FINE LINE divides amateur and professional theater, and the Boston Shakespeare Company's season premiere, Pericles, makes this woefully clear. Though this production has some innovation, drama, and wit, more often it is confused, contrived, disjointed and dull. Peter Sellars '80 and his troupe enthusiastically embrace their material, but they do so with little vitality and less virtuosity. For someone of Sellars' demonstrated skills, knowledge and insights, Pericles comes as a marked disappointment...
...accident. He was undergoing officers' training at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., in 1978 when the Senate faced a decision on whether to authorize the sale of 60 F-15 fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Fahd asked Bandar to lobby in favor of the deal. Using grace and wit, he helped persuade the Senators to approve the $2.5 billion sale. Three years later, when President Reagan proposed the sale of five AWACS radar aircraft to Saudi Arabia, Bandar was a natural choice to make the Saudi case, which he did successfully...
...letters was the daughter's marriage and removal to Provence. Separated from the child she idolized, Mme. de Sévigné launched upon her reports of life at the resplendent court of the Sun King and of the society of Paris, where she reigned as a famous wit...
...throw another issue into the brew. If we are so desperately concerned wit the social conditions in Central America, demanding that our military aid be converted to greater economic and humanitarian assistance, why are we silent regarding the wretched conditions of the impoverished in Lebanon, and they are many...