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...Bruins in the Boston Garden, landed at my counter. As I took their order, I kept expecting someone to ask, "Aren't you Johnny Morris's brother? What are you doing here?" But no one did, and I learned that night that a uniform cap and jacket make you invisible...
...fourth-floor suite. Jackson appeared next at the White House, to be lauded by the President and Nancy Reagan for allowing his song Beat It to be used in a Government anti-drunk-driving ad campaign. Resplendent in his glittery white glove and electric blue Sgt. Pepper jacket, Jackson looked more like a visiting head of state than a singer. During a White House tour, the pop idol was intrigued by a portrait of Andrew Jackson, whose military jacket was vaguely similar to his own. Later Jackson agreed to meet a few presidential staffers and their children, but fled...
...assassination, when two gunmen on a motorcycle pulled up to his car and shot him eight times with a machine gun; in Bogota. The first Colombian law-enforcement boss to wage a vigorous campaign against his country's powerful drug traffickers, Lara refused to wear a bulletproof jacket despite death threats. One of the two hitmen died immediately when the motorcycle crashed; the other, captured minutes later, claimed that "everything was arranged in Medellin," center of Colombia's $5 billion-a-year drug trade. After the killing, the government changed an earlier stance and announced that it would...
Joan Didion's fourth novel carries a few unnecessary burdens. There is the silly pink book jacket, the pompous flap copy ("a precise and pitiless exploration of lives lived in the harsh glare of public scrutiny") and, worst of all, the title, which is as ostentatious as that of the author's last novel, A Book of Common Prayer. Nor is the reader reassured when this most confident of stylists lodges herself as an extraneous character in the book, discussing narrative ploys that she has considered and rejected and alerting the reader to real or imagined difficulties ahead...
...collecting ideas, the Secretary sought advice inside and outside the Government, sometimes at meetings that resembled bull sessions. At one Saturday steak-and-eggs breakfast at the State Department last month, Shultz, professonally dressed in a tweed jacket and Argyle sweater, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and other top officials heard from Brian Jenkins of the California-based Rand Corp., who is an authority on worldwide terrorism. Jenkins stressed that officials must face the essential question: Are you prepared to use force...