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...affable man away from the bench, his major interests aside from the law and his family (he has three children) are fishing and the Cincinnati Reds. During the 1973 playoffs between the Reds and the New York Mets, he was hearing arguments at the court and had his clerks slip him inning-by-inning, then batter-by-batter, reports. When Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation came through during the climactic game, one clerk's note read, "Kranepool flies to left. Agnew resigns...
Mark Russell, 48, Washington political satirist, on the Reagan Cabinet: "They're the kind of guys that come home from a white-tie affair and slip into a black...
Then difficulties begin in earnest. Although their children slip easily into the new, primitive surroundings, the parents find it hard to adjust to the "habitation of mud houses." Food is scarce, sanitation minimal, and disease threatens with every drink from the nearby river. They fear betrayal. July can apparently keep the members of his extended family quiet, but perhaps "he could not prevent other people, living scattered round about, who knew the look of every thornbush, from discovering there were thornbushes that overgrew a white man's car, and passing on that information to any black army patrol...
This diplomacy of imagery lets the world slip even closer to nuclear disaster. America and the Soviets converse in an odious geopolitical dialogue--where the language is arms sales and the conversation is in the small (though growing larger) battles between our surrogates. Or the words are sometimes spoken with domestic arms build-ups like the one signaled by the President's first budget. This unnecessary hardware not only hurts our troubled economy, it also begs to be used--the most harrowing possibility of all. Direct negotiations between the superpowers for arms limitation and, eventually, disarmament, and mutual attempts...
...enlists a couple of readers: an unnamed male addressed only as "you" and a charming novel addict named Ludmilla, also known as the Other Reader. In the course of tracking down clues, the readers interview a senescent professor, an editor of a publishing house who talks like a rejection slip and a confirmed nonreader who glues books shut and applies a coat of varnish, thereupon producing pop sculptures...