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...mood at the concert was growing ugly. The audience had divided into two warring camps. Some listeners yelled for the music to stop, others called for it to continue. Umbrellas were brandished menacingly. Cheers and catcalls grew so noisy that the musicians had to count aloud to keep their places. One distressed listener, unable to contain her emotions any longer, jumped from her seat, ran down the aisle and pounded on the stage. "I can't stand it any longer!" she screamed at the startled performers...
Byplay becomes foreplay. They fall into each other's arms and then violently push away. She taunts him with gossip about her former conquests: Shakespeare, Aristophanes, T.S. Eliot, everyone, in fact, whom Miles might hopelessly wish to emulate. He wonders aloud why she will not transform herself more frequently into the shape of that delightful West Indian nurse, simply for the sake of varied stimulation, if she is so confident of her own seductive powers...
...impact of their stories on readers. TIME stories often cause a variety of such reactions. On the day that last week's issue was published, for example. Cover Subject Ted Turner, the founder of Cable News Network, began his regular Monday-morning meeting by reading the story aloud to his staff, skipping none of the parts that criticized him. In that same issue, a story about a former model acting as her own lawyer and winning a $1 million lawsuit prompted calls from two producers about movie possibilities...
Edward Rowny read aloud a letter from President Reagan calling the superpowers "trustees for humanity in the great task of ending the menace of nuclear arsenals." His Soviet counterpart Victor Karpov delivered a brief homily, concluding that "the most important thing about these talks is that we are now finally talking." With that opening exchange last week at Villa Rose, Moscow's diplomatic mission in Geneva, the two negotiators ended a hiatus of three years and resumed an esoteric, tedious and secrecy-shrouded but vital business: trying to reduce the swollen Soviet and U.S. inventories of the most powerful...
...Drake, the forlorn letters Hinckley wrote offered insight. "It just seemed like he was a sick white boy looking for someone to love him," she recalls. They reread aloud the note Hinckley wrote to Jodie Foster on the day of the shooting. "There is a definite possibility that I will be killed in my attempt to get Reagan," he scribbled. Glynis Lassiter, 42, a janitor at American University, argued that Hinckley was clearly insane "if he felt he was going to get killed and then he goes ahead and does it anyway." Copelin strongly disagreed. "Look at this," she said...