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...delight the subjects of their tiny sceptered isle. But last week's escapade was a doozy by any royal standard. Within days after Prince Andrew's celebrated return from his tour of duty in the Falklands aboard the carrier Invincible, he plans a well-deserved rest. Ah, but not alone. Andrew, 22, and a winsome lass named Koo Stark, 25, head off for the Caribbean island of Mustique and the house once used as a trysting hideaway by Princess Margaret and her old flame Roddy Llewellyn. Hoping to get away unnoticed, the couple travel under the names...
Here at last. And look, look quickly, behind that outcropping of rocks by the driveway. That tallish man, trying to hide. It's him. Isn't he marvelous? Why is he moving away from us? Look at how he runs. Ah: runs. Runs. -By Paul Gray...
...stands, and it was raining so hard that my raincoat--one of those leak-proof, rubberized specials--had soaked through. My newish jeans were plastered to my legs, which by this time must have been Levi blue from the dye that was forming a nice pool at my feet. Ah yes, my feet. My feet, shriveled to nothingness, were floating inside my socks, which were floating inside my sneakers, which had water streaming out of the eyelets, diluting the Levi blue pool. The man who said the body was 80 percent water was not at Dartmouth that...
...Ah me! This growing old!" he says as he turns into his 60s. "I suppose I should envy the afterlife believers, the genuflectors, the happy-ever-after ones who know beyond a shadow of doubt that we shall all meet again in some celestial vacuum, but I don't. I'd rather face up to finality and get on with life, lonely or not, for as long as it lasts." Perhaps that cool, rather brave philosophy explains why he never in fact did grow old, and why the best of his work remains ever fresh and, like...
...Ah, diplomacy at its best