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...blue-gray ergonomic chair, with a tilt-swivel mechanism and pneumatic adjustment, vinyl arms and a star pedestal base, retails for $500. It's a fine chair. But it's just a chair, of course -- except when it sits behind the most famous Formica desk in America, the first desk in the history of the Republic to stand for something other than homework and bureaucracy. When that chair sits behind the Desk That Johnny Built, that chair, of course, is a throne...
Outlined against a blue-gray October sky (in storage since 1924, trucked in to New Orleans for the occasion and fixed to the underside of the Superdome roof with 17,432 twist ties), the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse watch the Broncos and the 49ers prepare for Super Bowl XXIV. Joe Montana lazily solves the Savings and Loan Crisis. At half speed, without pads, John Elway construes Greek...
...perfection of his environmental posture. Heating oil, for the moment, costs less per gallon than bottled no-lead spring water. Never mind economy, however. There are congested localities such as Aspen, Colo., and Missoula, Mont., where wood burning is immoral, toxically wasteful and severely curtailed. The sweet-smelling, picturesque blue-gray smoke rising from Grandma's condo on a crisp December morning simply loads the air with too much additional junk...
This time, after not having seen my friend for 18 years, I barely recognized him. He stood in the doorway of his two-room apartment in a sooty housing project. He looked frail, his thin face tanned but deeply furrowed. But his blue-gray eyes still sparkled. On a small table in the corner stood a typewriter. "It is the fifth in 20 years," he said. The police had confiscated the others in attempts to trace samizdat (underground press) articles critical of the regime. The harassment had brought on an ulcer complicated by other stomach ailments. After multiple surgery...
...mother, "Mommy, is it starting yet?" the curtain lifted. Large flakes of snow sunk to the stage where a chestnut seller, the epitome of a Victorian Christmas, was hawking his wares. Families and children paraded across the stage into the wings. The lights did not twinkle gold against soft blue-gray; the stage was just a stage, and all the dancers were players on it. The tree was nowhere to be seen...