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...entering the Senate chamber. Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, recalling photographs taken of Lyndon and Hubert riding horseback in their business suits, twitted his colleague: "You are better on your feet than in the saddle." Tennessee's Albert Gore quoted The Book of Job: "He smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting...
...Yokohama underworld, and he finds flesh-and-blood truth in a final confrontation between Gondo and his enemy. The two men stare. Antithesis embodied, they are high and low-the man from the great glass house on the hill and the angry, anonymous underdog who loathes him from afar. "It is very interesting to make fortunate people unfortunate," the kidnaper sneers. "Hating you gave me some purpose in life...
MAISTERS were ther also, nyne or tin Who knew the clerkes ech as single men, And on the knyght they turned al ful sore To aske hadde he been listing by the dore. But from afar the worthy knyght was wys And knew he well what oft hadde scape his eyes...
...maimed in mind and body, Peter survived and laid a curse upon Hannah before exiling himself to New York: she was never, from that moment, to leave Gaze Castle. The curse tethers Hannah on a chain of neurosis, and she accepts its terms. As her lover watches her from afar with binoculars, she mournfully prowls the grounds of Gaze. Every living soul at Gaze Castle wallows vicariously in her entrapped shame...
With Ohiri closely guarded, the Crimson will need other scorers, who will shoot from afar and fight for "garbage" balls around the goal. The team must also pay less attention to form, and more to pressing hard at the goal...