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That so few soldiers in the coalition died somehow seemed to Americans a vindication. It was even a return of their shining self, of Buffalo Bill, who (e.e. cummings wrote) could "ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat ." The unspoken text was this: the nation had recovered its immunity, its divine favor, or anyway its gift for doing things right. The victory was as satisfying as anything Americans have done together since landing on the moon...
...their roofs. The city is at once sinuous and Stalinesque: palm trees and concrete mausoleums with a martial theme. And everywhere the gaze of the maximum leader. Hundreds of billboard-size portraits are painted on buildings, framed in traffic circles, displayed in lobbies: Saddam drawing sword, Saddam on stallion, Saddam in sunglasses, Saddam in camouflage fatigues, Saddam looking like Xavier Cugat in white suit, Saddam slaying the infidels. In the city center is a new statue, 60 ft. high: Saddam, ramrod straight, arm outstretched in salute...
...capital's Schickeria -- the chic and shallow set -- is brought to life twice a month on the ARD network by ANDREAS IK, 37, a onetime psychology student. Life's a peep show for Lukoschik, and his unorthodox interviews with the rich and notorious -- he once sat on a white stallion to interview a party girl bathing in mare's milk -- attract millions of viewers. Not to mention voyeurs...
...favorite mount is El Alamein, a stallion out of Mexico with a good ear, as Reagan explains. "Not too long ago, he did something that made me kind of call him to order, and I said, 'Hey, Mexicano.' He stopped and turned and looked right at me, and I thought, 'My gosh, he was raised and ridden and directed with the Mexican language.' So I've got to learn a little more Spanish...
...bunch of Harvard football players watching the Italian Stallion slug it out with Apollo Creed. Now that's a memory...