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...quoting the boss's own words back to him, and no President's advisers have ever relished bringing the chief bad news. But there is another difficulty that does seem somewhat peculiar to the Reagan White House: the President abhors conflict among his aides. Says Nancy: "He doesn't function well if there are tensions. He likes everybody to like one another and get along...
Then DeVries removed the two pumping chambers (or ventricles) of Clark's heart, leaving the two atria, which function as storage chambers for blood. In all, about two-thirds of the heart were cut away. The cavity in the chest of the 6-ft. 2-in. Clark could easily accommodate the Jarvik-7. "There's room enough for two!" said DeVries with delight. The prosthesis is slightly larger than an average heart and too large, in fact, for most women...
Powell: In every system, there is a contest between the bureaucracy and the top leader...I think Andropov is better informed [than Mr. Brezhnev]. According to our intelligence people, in his final years. Mr. Brezhnev apparently was only able to function four hours a day. That didn't give him much control over himself, much less over the bureaucracy...
...Most elected officials have very shorttern horizons. Their proper function is to help their community get through to the nest election with minimal conflict." Downs said
...know the story, the less they'll look at the picture." Likewise, the paintings are full of references to other art, usually of a rather arcane sort. But they seem casually, even inattentively deployed, coming out not as formal homages to this or that master but as a function of temperament. Like Bonnard, whose work he reveres, Hodgkin is a fidgety peeper into secular paradises and controllable realms of pleasure. But as befits a painter who makes no bones about his belief in the continuity of past and present, part of the pleasure lies in the conversation between...