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...apartment near the Arc de Triomphe, Onassis checked into the American Hospital in suburban Neuilly, managing to slip unobserved through the hospital's rear door. The crowd of reporters and photographers waiting at the hospital's main entrance apparently were deliberately distracted by the arrival of an ashen-faced and obviously distraught Jackie, who was accompanied by Christina Onassis (the shipper's 24-year-old daughter by a previous marriage...
...made his duck-footed appearance before the largest crowd ever to witness a tennis match (30,472) as well as a Super Bowl-size TV audience, Riggs was grim, nervous, almost ashen. Billie Jean was stretched taut also, but it was the tension of a superior athlete fully confident of her capabilities...
...resolution sneaks between the dilemma's horns. Howard foils Watchung's design singlehanded by accepting one bribe, passing on another, then telling all at the climactic town meeting. The spectacle of elected officials and corporate legal lizards cowering in ashen fear before a public recitation of their misdeeds seems sadly old-fashioned in this summer of '73. Plucky loners rarely stop corporations dead in their tracks, as Moynahan knows; the Watchung caper is a fictionally spiced version of several successful corporate moves into Princeton and environs in recent years. The novel's dedication ("To the Millstone...
...policy problems in the strictest intellectual terms. But those with sharp memories recalled that in his final year in office, Bundy appeared to be losing a bit of his famous equanimity. In fact, some thought he had been infected by a drop of emotion. In February 1965, Bundy returned ashen from a trip to Vietnam: While he was there, an NLF platoon had attacked the US troops at Pleiku. For Bundy's anemic mind, which had made all calculations in black and white, the sight of blood was unnerving. He returned to the President with a fervent recommendation: Bomb. Bomb...
...emotional remorse? Is he, perhaps, more in love with Julia than he lets on, enough to want to soften the blow of his departure? Is it possible that he wants to bring a little fleshly warmth into Lacey's loveless and lonely life? Finally, as we see the ashen, tearless desolation on Lacey's face after Perew leaves, must we not wonder if they are two latent homosexuals...