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...native of New York, Rosenblatt wrote a profile of that city for TIME just before the Democratic National Convention there in August. But he found Washington "much harder to pin down." The main reason, says Rosenblatt, is that "unlike most American cities, Washington did not grow naturally - it was invented. It is the symbolic center of the country, a gathering point for politicians and powerbrokers and a place where people live...
...people, Gershuni first made an incision in the elephant's tough skin just below her knee, using a foot-long saw instead of a scalpel. Then, with an electric drill, he cut a hole through one of the fractured bones and shoved in a 12-in.-long steel pin; this served as an anchor for the heavy hoof-to-knee cast. Three and a half hours later Mandavu was brought back to consciousness. Within GARRISON minutes she lumbered to her feet, apparently no worse for the experience...
More than a year ago, conservative strategists gathered in some D.C. war room and began sticking pins in maps. They aimed at Church--their chief target, for he was floor manager for the Panama Canal "giveaway." They stuck a pin in Indiana, where they said Birch Bayh had voted consistently to cut national defense. Iowa's John Culver made it to the list, for his fellow Iowa liberal, Dick Clark, has proven vulnerable in 1978. And George McGovern, it almost went without saying, got a pin too, if for no better reason than the memory of his radlib...
...careless, rowdy exuberance for life and the fun of movies. Rush keeps the show moving busily forward, accompanied by a giddy, carnival-like ragtime score; we don't have time to puzzle the enigmas that teem in such overabundance, but at the same time we never have time to pin down the petty annoyances. Rush's eclectic style can careen between screwball frolic and murky psychodrama with the naive self-assurance of a precocious school boy. Like his stunt man protagonist, he stumbles again and again; but each time he falls flat he bounces up grinning to rush...
President Carter labels Governor Reagan a warmonger. Lyndon Johnson tried to pin the same accusation on Barry Goldwater in 1964 and won reelection, then sent 600,000 men to Viet Nam. Brian B. Tousley Monterey, Calif...