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...Volkswagen Rabbit, also chauffeured Skow around the actor's Westport, Conn., neighborhood at what Skow nervously refers to as "a rather brisk pace." A few days before, Newman had repaired to the back of a limousine to travel around California campaigning for a nuclear freeze. In between some backseat driving, he talked to Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell. During the week that she spent with Newman, Worrell also watched him spellbind waiters at a San Francisco restaurant as he concocted his own salad dressing, rescue a stricken bee that had fallen on a patio table and, inevitably, jump...
During the hour-long ride to Rockport. DiPietro sat with Hussain in the backseat of the car. She said that he kept a strong grip on her the entire time, while he testified that she sat quietly in his lap and at one time even kissed his neck...
...ETIQUETTE of moral judgments has traditionally given a backseat to economists. Leaving them the technical questions of production and distribution, philosophers have looked beyond the transactions and haggling of everyday life for answers to the heavy problems of morality and ethics. Richard A. Posner, a former law professor at the University of Chicago recently appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, has written The Economics of Justice to steer economic moral reasoning into the straits that govern human behavior...
...that he underestimates the important of starting with talent. "In my entire four years I know of only one or two players in this league who've improved--most regress." Felske surmises that "tennis takes a backseat" when prodigies come to college and discover that the world has more to offer...
...stolen their audience, they take their ramshackle operation into the interior and finally are driven to big cities buzzing with the din of portable radios and the "civilized" hustle of discos, drug deals, and leisure suits. More and more, the troupe's show business must take a backseat to the oldest profession, and Lord Gypsy is forced to consider a proposition to join a smuggling racket...