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Leahy began playing the what-if game. What if you were Secretary of State? What would you do? He expected her to beg off the question as impolitic at this moment. Instead Albright spent the next 20 minutes giving him her worldview, almost as if she were rehearsing her testimony for a confirmation hearing...
...Mannion, a formidable immigrant from Ireland. The author follows a chain of matrimonial disasters involving weak men and angry, churchbound women who wish they had married someone else. Bridie, Rayona's great-grandmother, is one of these harridans. She speaks gloatingly of withholding sex: "I taught my husband to beg, and I despised him for his weakness...
None of the songs on Spice, from the slumberous ballad 2 Become 1 to the bass-heavy party jam Something Kinda Funny, come across as deeply felt; they all seem designed to amuse, titillate, ingratiate. Members of the group, however, beg to differ. "We don't try to please anybody," says Mel C. "What we're doing is what we want to do, what we really enjoy, and if people are receptive to it, then that's brilliant." The girls say there are positive themes in their peppy tunes. For example, Wannabe declares that friendships are more important than love...
...fatness of these pursy times/ Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg," says Hamlet to Gertrude. Pursy means short-winded, in poor condition...
...Kerri Strug, 19. Considered a senior citizen in the rather precious world of gymnastics, the tiny Olympian displayed courage not usually associated with high school seniors. Indeed, a replay of her dash down the ramp on a badly sprained left ankle should be shown to those prima donnas who beg out of the lineup because of the slightest twinge. Let the pro who doesn't want to play on a particular day watch a tape of Strug doing her Yurchenko 1 1/2 vault, nailing her landing and then keeping her balance as she pivots to the judges on one foot...