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...writers clustered around the figure of Marinetti, poet, dandy, ringmaster, publicist and red-hot explainer to the global village -- "the caffeine of Europe," as he called himself. They were all Italian; to be Italian then was to inherit a culture dominated by the weight of the Tuscan and Roman past and by a technologically backward economy based largely on agriculture and craft...
Saint-Exupery was an odd mixture: public figure and recluse, mystic and skeptic, fighter and dreamer. He abandoned the Roman Catholicism of his childhood but not his religious yearnings. "It's strange that I can't believe, that I don't have faith. One loves God without hope: That would be ^ something that would suit me -- the monastery of Solesmes and Gregorian chant." He referred often to the monastic life, and seems to have thought seriously about taking up such an existence after the war. He did not get the chance. But his ad- mirers, knowing that the issues...
...messenger dropped off sealed envelopes at the offices of two West Beirut newspapers before he disappeared into the lawless night. The news: one of the American hostages in Lebanon, Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, 51, a Roman Catholic priest from Joliet, Ill., was about to be released by Islamic Jihad, the shadowy Shi'ite Muslim terrorist group that had abducted him in January 1985. His captors claimed that Jenco, who suffers from a heart condition, was being freed because of "deteriorating health" and released photos of the haggard priest in a red shirt. But their hostage seemed reasonably fit when found...
...just got to wonder how calculating some movie studies are. Take the movie Heartburn, with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, two of the most acclaimed actors today. Mike Nichols, one of the eighties' hottest directors, controlled the process; and the screenplay was taken from a best-selling roman a clef by Nora Ephron, the former wife of big-shot Washington journalist Carl Bernstein. Hmmmm. Yeah, you know the producers were dreaming of a blockbuster and nine Academy awards from the moment they started shooting. With all that build-up, you've got to be disappointed...
...then, did we get such a tab for toting around a President? Unlike a Roman noble, Ronald Reagan didn't even ask for the new plane. He loves the one he's got ("better than any office I have"). But by 1990 the 707s will become almost extinct by factory decree. Spare parts will be scarce, the engines too noisy for flight rules. Reagan's 707 has 1,024,897 miles and 42 countries on it. A lobbying effort for this big bird was mounted back in Lyndon Johnson's time by the Air Force, the Secret Service, the White...