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...taking care of other people's children. That's when I remember reading Jean Kerr, who would sit out in her car and hide, reading the car-manual section on tire pressure. It's ridiculous. The whole thing is ridiculous." Then a deep breath: "It's the core of laughter. If you can't make it better, you can laugh...
...order. But the three columns and two TV slots a week come first. Writer's block? No such luxury is permitted. If there is an idea whirling around in her head, it's a great day. If not, she checks notes she has written to herself "on breath-mint wrappers, blank checks and hotel stationery." She relies now more on narrative than on the famous one-liners she fired off as a beginning columnist "because I was afraid people wouldn't wait for the story...
...more false I appear, and I become too young as age creeps on") to everyone's favorite author, Anonymous ("What turns without moving?" "What goes out but never comes back?" "What is it that you will break even if you name it?"). Answers: Lice; a portrait; milk; breath; silence...
...halftime. Time to catch a fleeting breath, recall the plays that had worked, assess the fumbles, analyze the opponent's weaknesses and plot a second-half strategy to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Walter Mondale looked back at the grueling, wildly erratic first half and declared in Philadelphia: "I have shown that I have the guts and the steel necessary to fight back under tough circumstances." Looking toward the imminent showdown, Gary Hart vowed at a pep rally in Denver: "When we come back out for the second half, you're going to see some long bombs...
Perhaps the most important message to take away from this whole mess is a sense of warning. In Nicaragua, it is reported, citizens wait on our election year with baited breath. Professors who spend Sundays at war and the rest of the week with their work preface their books with notes about who will win, while television stars plan their careers around whether or not their show's political content will survive a Reagan election. In the tiny town of San Juan Del Norte, one of the few the Reagan CIA contras hold, a guard now stops journalists from entering...