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...twice burned. Even though our patriotism is evident, it isn't fully flowered. It's still tentative. The baby boomers, says Wheeler, who is a Republican, "have a sense that life isn't as simple as in the old days. They can't slip into simplistic, chauvinistic patriotism. Theirs is a generous and mature patriotism, [not] thin and shrill." Ron Hayes, a Minnesota farm-management teacher, is seven years older than Wheeler, and just over the generational line. "When they play The Star-Spangled Banner" Hayes says, "I can still feel a chill up my spine...
Agreement had seemed within reach so often, only to slip away, that no one seemed surprised when the ceremony was delayed for five hours on Thursday. After all, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir had been up until 5 a.m. negotiating the last detail. Finally, at 3:45 p.m., the two met again in the Knesset basement. Sitting at a blue cloth-covered table and surrounded by colleagues, Labor Leader Peres and Likud Chief Shamir signed the accord that established a national unity government. Cognac glasses in hand, the new partners toasted the accomplishment with cries of "L 'chayim...
Peering out from under his rain-soaked fedora, Bisconti let slip the following information under piercingly intensive questioning by former Crimson President Jacob M. Schlesinger...
When she is not present there are−a familiar problem with Cassavetes−too many approximations of a scene's emotional point, too many claims on an audience's indulgence. Yet no matter how far the mind strays, one never feels safe in letting it slip away completely. You can never tell when Rowlands is going to do something astonishing. It is the unpredictable grace and goofiness of her behavior, the subtle complexity of emotions she generates, that finally overcome all obstacles to enthrallment...
...guaranteed or your money back." Sears will take almost anything back, for almost any reason. In a company with so many products, some defective ones naturally slip through, no matter how stiff the controls. Sears has won a reputation for taking back goods without an argument. "I bought a sweater at May's, had it wrapped at Bullett's, got my change at Mandon's, left by way of Desmond's, and when I found it didn't fit, the only place I could return it was Sears, Roebuck," quipped Radio Host Phil Baker...