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...most painfully funny two-time loser in America. For months, people will be debating whether Rachel's analyst Vera Maxwell is based on Nora's therapist Mildred Newman (How to Be Your Own Best Friend), or if Pollster Pat Caddell's white and black beard has been transferred to the chin of Carl Bernstein. That is the stuff of columns, not criticism. Long after the chatter has abated, Heartburn will be providing insights and laughter. Forty thousand copies are already in print, and the bestseller list cannot be far away. As Nora Ephron is about to learn...
When Sprague surfaces at noon, the two have managed to fill eleven baskets with oysters. "Not too bad," says Sprague through the ice that forms quickly on his beard and mustache. "But not too great, either. Be nice if we could get 20 bushels. Some days we get as few as twelve, and that barely pays...
Because we are traditionalist Orthodox clergymen (belonging to that part of the Church of Greece which adheres to the Julian Calendar), we maintain the clerical dress (black cassock, uncut hair and beard) of the Orthodox clergy throughout Europe--even though our monastery, a dependency of a large Greek monastic house, is in the United States. It has been our view that geography should not compromise tradition, especially when one is in a country which champions religious freedom...
...that the officer can see you are not a threat. He may not frisk you unless he has a reasonable basis for believing that you are armed and dangerous. Erratic or menacing behavior, or a bulge in your pockets, could justify a frisk, but wearing a beard or unusual clothing cannot. If the officer does "pat you down," he may go into only those pockets where he feels something that could be a weapon...
...somewhat different. Though King, like Washington, is the only Black candidate in the race it is unlikely that he can unify a bloc the way Washington did. The Democratic nominee for mayor of Chicago was quite mainstream, himself a congressman from the area. But King-bald and bedecked in beard and mustache-is an original and radical thinker who may alienate the conversative-though steadfastly Democratic-electorate...