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Aldo would have had a terrible time capturing the mouth, I am sure. Within an arc of less than, say, 30 degrees, that mouth can convey every important feeling in the politician's guidebook. At the top of the arc, there is a smile that fairly breathes a grandfatherly benevolence. A shade below that, there's an omni-purpose politician's grin. At the middle of the arc, Al's smile turns into a squarely set, unrehearsed-looking deadpan, suitable for framing and hanging in a standup comics' Hall of Fame. And at the bottom of the arc, there...
Notes on the State of Virginia, a response to a series of questions posed by the secretary of the French legation in Philadelphia, is a mixture of guidebook, history, scientific ledger, philosophical treatise, vindication of American nationalism and casual introduction to Jefferson's opinions on practically everything. The Notes and the 79 letters included here are the most compelling part of the Viking collection...
...bomb the country back into the Stone Age-the Viet Nam War could never be "won" in the traditional sense. At fault perhaps was an American inability to accept defeat, or a hypnotic preoccupation with the models of previous, simpler wars. There was no precedent to quote, no guidebook to lead...
...many of the regulators themselves. In a speech in Detroit last week, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis Engman, 38, a Nixon appointee, sounded almost like an echo of Consumerist Ralph Nader, whose Center for the Study of Responsive Law has just published a massive 950-page citizens' guidebook to the "bureaucratic labyrinths" of the federal regulatory system...
...last piece of advice Let's Go can't give you: Buy your guidebook here. Like so many other essentials, it will cost you more over there...