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...signs of opening-night nervousness: Albert Gore mangled the name of President James Polk, and Bruce Babbitt bobbed and weaved in his chair like a young Muhammad Ali. Last week it was the Republicans' turn to face William Buckley's Firing Line. From the moment the G.O.P. six-pack strode onto the Houston stage, all visual cues suggested that they were indeed different from their Democratic counterparts. They seemed reassuringly familiar, more experienced, older and collectively radiated -- to borrow one of Buckley's Latinisms -- gravitas...
Markham, reports Lovell, was a high-fashion beauty who strode about three continents in slacks. She was tough and unusually strong and could ride anything. More practically, she understood horses. In the '20s and again in the '50s and '60s, she was the pre-eminent race trainer in East Africa. She flew her own bush-taxi service for only a few years, in the '30s, but was a & fearless pilot who was the first to scout elephants commercially from the air, over country where a forced landing generally meant death. In 1936 she became the first person to fly solo...
Occasionally, when a wayward voter rebuffed their earnest entreaties, they dropped to their knees to pray for the misguided soul heading toward the ballot boxes in the crowded Ames, Iowa, arena. But when their candidate finally strode onto the podium with the beaming countenance of a man blessed with faith in the righteousness of his path, the campaign workers leaped off their feet in joy. Leaning forward with the mild-mannered charm of a televangelist talking to a camera, yet drawing on the rhythmic cadences of a polished preacher, the Rev. Pat Robertson delivered an ecumenical version of the message...
Shortly after his election in 1984, Duarte strode into the small town of La Palma for a dramatic, highly publicized meeting with guerrilla representatives. Subsequent attempts at talks fizzled, however. For a while, it did not seem to matter. Strengthened by dozens of U.S.-supplied helicopter gunships, the 52,000-strong Salvadoran army seemed to be slowly gaining the initiative. F.M.L.N. forces dwindled from an estimated 11,000 to around 7,000, and they alienated supporters by torching buses and planting land mines, maiming innocent civilians...
...Madonna strode onstage, and 15,000 fans went bats. "It feels great to be in a house full of people who care," she told the Madison Square Garden crowd. "AIDS is a strange and powerful disease. But we're more powerful." Then Madonna, who lost her "best friend," Painter Martin Burgoyne, 24, to AIDS, rocked the Garden with old songs given pertinent twists. As she sang Papa Don't Preach, the screens flashed Ronald Reagan's image; at song's end, they bore the message SAFE SEX. Everyone got the message from the concert, which raised...