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On the edge Neil Lade -.
(From Canberra Times)
L ounging in a light retreat, couched in the lazy- hazy, a vision springs from nowhere. Outside it's bright blue, sunshine streaming. And, with the curtains wide open, inside views take different perceptions - through a grey mirror darkly in a switched-off, big-screen vista. A tiny spot of shining light is flittering in deep reflection - a sun speck sparkling off my watch into a blinding pinpoint. And Dad's Army demented flick-switches into chimera cinema, snapshooting into focus, sweeping down easily on another train. It's an endoscopic, pre-psychotic, idiotic, episodic vision never been seen before. Winner, loser, wedge-hog user - a pre-poll stunt zooming into view with John Winstonic bitter twists twitching, teasing. It wharf-lands me at Kirribilli-on-Sea where Colonel Main-Warring is giving the drill, strutting in a pompous puffed-out pose. Motley troops shuffle in bored walks. Abbott's in clerical habits verging in tut-tuts, tooing and throwing punches into nowhere. Downer's in a private pike with multiple twists and double ...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 21, 2003 700+ words
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- Chicago Tribune David Greising Column.
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- News wire article from: Knight Ridder Washington Bureau (Washington, DC) March 26, 2003 700+ words
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- Reagan in tough stand against protectionism.
- Magazine article from: Daily News Record September 3, 1985 700+ words
...time, it is feared that a campaign by the Administration to emphasize the negative affects enactment would have on U.S. exports could cut votes, especially from Farm Belt and Western states lawmakers, needed for an override of a veto.
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- Magazine article from: WWD September 3, 1985 700+ words
...time, it is feared a campaign by the administration to emphasize the negative effects that enactment would have on U.S. exports could cut votes -- especially from Farm Belt and Western state lawmakers -- needed for an override of a veto.
