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Ronald Reagan's new book, Speaking My Mind, allows him to speak his mind the second time a little differently. In a March 4, 1987, speech on the day of the Tower commission report, Reagan said he "didn't ask enough about the specifics of the total Iran plan." In the introduction to the speech in his book, Reagan has a new explanation for the Iran-contra affair. He wonders whether the whole thing was "a setup, a sting operation, by the Iranians." Over to you, Ollie...
...elegant French magazine Vu drew upon a breed of independent artist-photographer, often with one foot in Bohemia, to capture the arresting aspect of the everyday. Among the foremost practitioners were the German emigre Tim Gidal and Hungarian-born Andre Kertesz, whose enigmatic views of the Eiffel Tower and Paris streets imbued any human presence with an ephemeral tension...
...powerless to offer effective opposition to the Republican program. Part of their difficulty stems from the weakness, egotism, venality and sheer political cowardice rampant on Capitol Hill today. Much of the current session, in fact, has been devoted to investigating either former members of Congress like John Tower, Bush's first choice as Defense Secretary, or prominent members such as Speaker Jim Wright, who was forced to resign because of his ethical lapses...
...beribboned by a sculpture-studded esplanade, a mile-long stroll leading to the South Cove. There, grasses and boulders are untamed, as the riverbank might have been when Indians apprehensively watched approaching sails. Says Sally-Jane Heit, an actress-writer who was a 1982 "pioneer" in the first apartment tower: "It's a fantasy world, a sculpted cutout. You sit there and listen to the primal sound of the water whooshing...
...cloistered Italian village of San Gimignano, bold Rosa (Anita Zagaria) is engaged to a town big shot but loves Danilo Lucca (Joseph Long). In a suicidal swoon, the lovers leap from the cathedral tower -- and land, in a flick of Tony Grisoni's supple narrative, in London's Italian quarter. Ten- year-old Eddie Lucca (Ian Hawkes) tells the story with a child's wily innocence as filtered through the memory of a wistful adult...