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...political and strategic constraints placed on Eisenhower dictated the way he waged the campaign. But never before have these problems been spelled out in such day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour detail. The D-day Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, code named OVERLOAD, was plagued by foul weather, shortages and doubt up to the moment that Ike said, "O.K., we'll go." Churchill called this operation "undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever taken place," which sounds like understatement in the context of David Eisenhower's meticulous reconstruction of the event...
Theroux is onto a good thing. The idea of wilderness is central to the American imagination. Nature's nation, as a scholar once called the U.S., defines itself by the open spaces it can occupy and eventually foul. The synthetic environments of Coldharbor and the Owners' vicarious entertainments pervert the definition of nation, to say nothing of personality. Connected by computer, talking to one another through radio-helmets, Theroux's privileged few incubate fantasies and promote hideous realities. The worst is a pornography of violence practiced by a private police force known as Godseye. They roam Manhattan's abandoned neighborhoods...
...RECEIVED a letter from the White House yesterday. Apparently the FBI had been secretly investigating my use of foul language, and the President, after seeing the Bureau's report, concluded he had to take some action. So he terminated my membership in the family of Western nations...
...Cutter again." Romantic heroines, after all, are supposed to choose emotion over responsibility. But that was when there were suitable romantic heroes. Try as she might, Anna cannot convey the magic and charm she perceives in Leo. To the nonsmitten observer, he seems to be little more than a foul-mouthed idler and sponge, an unmitigated egotist who is capable of remarking, when Anna tells him that their lovemaking has resulted in pregnancy, "I'm just not anxious to have any kid. There's a way in which I see it as a form of self-indulgence, really...
...system. Thus Mexicans and foreigners alike were paying close attention to last week's elections in Chihuahua, the country's largest state, where the conservative opposition National Action Party (P.A.N.) enjoys a considerable following. At issue: whether the P.R.I. would maintain its stranglehold on power by means fair or foul...