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...persuaded her to smooth her frown, lay office cream and the fourth martini. He also advised her to emulate Garbo by keeping her garrulous mouth shut. On a movie set she stood up to directors; in real life she was easily led. Someone even had to tell her to abandon her marriage. Combat Photographer Robert Capa, whom she met in Paris after the war, tried. They loved each other, but he was not the marrying sort...
...stared out the window into infinite space. I thought of my parents and wondered if I should abandon the theatre and return to rabbinical school. Through the half-open door I saw Connie and also Emily, both laughing and chatting with guests, and all I could mutter to myself as I remained a limp, hunched figure was an age-old line of my grandfather's which goes...
...with a similar plan of action. By turning off steam and electricity at night and on weekends, Collier says he saved 30 to 40 per cent on those bills. Nevertheless, William James still made it into the Big Four because of its ventilation system--one that Leahy hopes to abandon by next spring--which Collier refers to as "an absolute horror story...
...last year, Icelandair, its official name since 1979, slashed the number of transatlantic flights from 23 to 2 per week and laid off 900 of its 1,700 employees. Though it will continue European and domestic flights with a new Boeing 727 and four F-27 Friendships, Icelandair will abandon all but a token run over the North Atlantic. Says Sigur-dur Helgason, Icelandair's chief executive officer: "North Atlantic competition is operating under the law of the jungle...
...heard for at least another hour." Plurals and singulars confound him: "Men who noticed that their wives aroused other men became in many cases aroused by her themselves." He confuses foreboding with forbearance, uses interfaith for the opposite, intrafaith, and misapplies who, whom, which and that with abandon...