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...ribel in the French Alps. Next morning while Christine and her fiancé, Team Trainer Jean Béranger, were studying the course, a vacationing Austrian lost control of her skis at 50 m.p.h. and plowed into the bride-to-be, breaking her right leg and ankle. Ah well, cracked Christine's sister Marielle, herself a slalom champion: "A white plaster cast won't go so badly with your wedding gown...
...side, split-nailed suburban housewives and well-manicured Manhattan matrons, as well as a surprising number of camera-toting men, strolled through the better commercial displays, ooohing, aaahing, envying and inquiring. "They must have a secret!" exclaimed one housewife in front of a tub of Golden Wine roses. "Ah, geraniums! I love them because they are so hardy!" said another...
Overland Hole. The two stories and his poem Plain Language from Truthful James, in which Ah Sin the Chinaman beats a table of U.S. poker players at their own game, have found permanent lodging in all the anthologies. Harte himself was astonished at the success of the poem, which was republished in papers and magazines all over the country. He had stuffed it into one issue of Overland merely to fill a hole, and ever after wished that he hadn...
...Ah" says Alec Guiness turning to the audience to deliver an aside not unlike one of George Burns's in the old Burns & Allen show, "Then it's a gift!" Some laugh; some cry; others are already on their feet, dancing in the aisles. Boris Pasternak never had it so good...
...immodest clothes, told her he would rather see her in a whorehouse than with her mother, and lectured her sternly about his superior philosophical systems ("Mine," he wrote, "are based on reason, and yours are merely the fruit of stupidity"). He was more jovial with his valet Carteron: "Ah: you ancient pumpkin cooked in bugs' juice, third horn of the devil's head, codface drawn out like the two ears of an oyster, slipper of a procuress." It was hardly an appropriate tone to take with one's valet, but Carteron was no ordinary valet...