Him and the yawning grave, its passage served to screen. With eye as gray as lead, with cheek as brown as bronze, Here where we stand, shall sit and suffer Louis Onze: The while from yonder tent parade forth, not—oh, no— Bateleurs, baladines! but range themselves a-row Those well...
The launch was flawless. The balloon drifted eastward, climbing a thousand feet a minute. At his station on the ground Kittinger had flight instrumentation and controls that allowed him to vent helium if the balloon climbed too fast, to drop ballast if it did not climb fast enough, and, at...
was murdered, L.B.J. connived and thrived, and two presidents Bush catapulted from the oil business to the Oval Office? Carter and I remarked on how CBS and Dan Rather, another son of Texas, had recently seen their credibility slip after airing a segment on George Bush’s spotty ...
Almost every time I called her—less often than I should have—she’d launch into an unbroken sentence that made me feel as claustrophobic as a dentist’s chair. How windy it was and how Aunt Wee Wee was staying with Taylor nearly 24/7 because of his dementia and my fluid is going ...
coming off the huge comedy hit Heaven Can Wait, which minted money for Paramount, was probably the only star with the clout (or desire) to launch a major motion picture that would dramatize the Russian Revolution from a not entirely unsympathetic perspective—and get a studio to pay for it....