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Hawaii was pure holiday. Although the President carried his three-inch-thick briefing book as he padded to the beach in white bathing trunks Easter Monday, he mostly ignored it. Instead, he tried some broken-field running, using a coconut as a surrogate football, then exhibited a leisurely overhand crawl through the Pacific surf. The scene seemed reminiscent of the pictures from 1966 that purported to show Chairman Mao, then 72, swimming vigorously in the Yangtze River. During their day and two nights in the 50th state (they stop in the 49th, Alaska, this week), Reagan and Nancy chatted with...
...Greek landscape is not always so peaceable. Later in the novel, when the boys approach water, they are set upon by a cloud of stinging insects. Panagis reports: the main body of the swarm moved to block our way, and the air became so thick that the last rays of the sun could not penetrate it. It was as though the air had taken a visible body and was eager to show its pulse and its muscle, its twisting limbs at each point of severance, and its furious powers of regeneration....as its body blocked our view...
...These polls are almost mind warping," he says, instinctively rubbing his hand through his thick, gray hair. "Before New Hampshire I had this uncomfortable feeling that people thought I was taking them for granted...
...situation will change." When the late Soviet leader Yuri Andropov directed that warning at West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last year, he left no doubt about what he meant. Ties between East and West Germany would inevitably deteriorate once the two countries had to view each other "through a thick palisade of missiles...
...more he cast himself as the last conduit of classical prototypes, the stiffer and more self-satisfied his work be came, a decline most evident after he moved to the Villa Medici in 1961. The measured suppleness of Balthus's paint surface now began to ossify, acquiring a thick, chalky, fresco-like appearance. It was meant to suggest the warmth and historical patina of old Roman walls, and so it did, but in a merely decorative way. "Pier rot della Francesca," the gibe of one of Balthus's contemporaries, hits the late paintings dead center...