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Memories on the porch tend to dwell on the glory days, when Atlantic City was fixed in the national consciousness as the middle-class playground, and the "prospect of a stroll on the Boardwalk-better yet, a ride in a wicker rolling chair-warmed the days all winter long...
...first included a ritualistic reference to the President as a "nice guy" before savaging his policies, as if anxious not to seem partisan. That's how things are in Jelly-Bean Land. Now Reagan's congressional successes have brought a new note of grudging admiration. Liberal Tom Wicker finds Reagan "an able and resourceful political leader whose amiable underplaying reinforces even while it obscures his effectiveness." Right-wing columnists feel much freer in muting their enthusiasm for the President. In the territory where Rowland Evans and Robert Novak roam-and where seldom is heard a discouraging word about...
...they are, Begin and Sadat once again put on a public display of warmth and respect that reflected their private views of each other. They talked at the White Elephant, a local restaurant on a sandy strand of beautiful Naama Bay. Relaxed and smiling, the two leaders posed in wicker chairs on the restaurant's windswept veranda like a couple of contented tourists. There was a brief moment when the air of cordiality at the conference was threatened by an angry demonstration of Israeli settlers, who will be forced to leave when the territory returns to Egypt. Sadat later...
...breasts-really two bright balloons. Meanwhile, her husband (Baritone David Holloway) assumes female dress and godlike fecundity; in a day he/she produces 40,049 offspring. Eventually both resume their original genders and celebrate the need to repopulate the world after war. Among Hockney's wacky touches: solemn wicker baby prams and grave pasteboard infants who pop up from them. Malfitano and Holloway may not have mastered French singing style, but they have strong, well trained voices capable of bringing down the house, Broadway-style...
...also about David White. Hired after a stint at the paper's Paris bureau as an office boy to Tom Wicker, White eventually filled The Times' shipping reporter slot, covering the nation's largest harbor. With the onset in 1977 of the "New" New York Times--"The Living Section," a jogging column and other concessions to profitable pop journalism practiced by other papers but sternly resisted by The Times----White's editors decided that shipping wasn't sexy, abolished the beat, and shunted him off to the hinterlands of the suburban Westchester edition. Disillusioned, White quit to become a free...