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Talk Show. In addition to the delicatessen, the three restaurants-a small mirror-lined hall with booths for twosomes, a large jungle-motif dining area with waiters and waitresses in safari suits, and a plushy retreat opposite the bar-offer a wide-ranging mixture of French and American food. There are hamburgers and hot dogs-and quiche Lorraine and hifsteck tartare as well: Moët et Chandon champagne and Coca-Cola are both on the menu. Empty seats are interdit. "We want Le Drugstore to be a meeting place,'' Caroline Solovei says, "and if there...
Serena dearly loved the Ritz. She ate dozens of watercress sandwiches and gazed at herself in the mirror and swam in the bathtub. And while Louis stood and looked out of the window at the Public Garden down below, Serena would walk round and around, turning lights on and off for the fun of it. Then they would both get into the bathtub and go to sleep...
...suggested that the smaller nations be given "associate" membership but no General Assembly vote. Another proposal is that each nation's vote be weighted to reflect the size of its population. With its steadily growing membership, the U.N. promises to become an ever more faithful mirror of Marshall McLuhan's "global village." But unless some measure is adopted to deal with the small-nation problem, it will also become less useful as a forum for quiet, fruitful diplomacy among the powers...
...days of fighting, not one room remained unscarred. A rifle bullet smacked into the wall above my bed while I typed in the bathroom. I thought bathrooms were safe until a .50-cal. bullet smashed through a balcony into a fourth-floor room, penetrated the bathroom wall, shattered the mirror and landed, spent, in the bathtub. The hotel was indirectly pasted by Rudolph the Recoilless Rifle, a monstrous weapon stationed outside by the army. Every time Rudolph was fired, its deafening blast shattered one more of the windows in the lobby walls...
Finally Greg stands stripped down, physically and spiritually naked. Humiliated in body and spirit, he takes out his self-contempt on Kee-the nagging mirror of his own human weakness-and kills him. Thus the log that began as a military record ends as a near-mad confession, a wild wail addressed to the Rescue God ("We cannot save ourselves...