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...nickname notwithstanding, professional golfer Frank ("Fuzzy") Zoeller saw Tiger Woods quite clearly. He gazed upon the new king of professional golf, through whose veins runs the blood of four continents, and beheld neither a one-man melting pot nor even a golfing prodigy but a fried-chicken-and-collard- greens-eating Sambo. Zoeller saw Woods, in short, as just another stereotype, condemned by his blackness to the perpetual status of "little...
While she was being treated at UHS, Drew beheld none other than her own mother pushing down the door with Drew's entire family...
...they were so senile that they could neither sustain a conversation nor read a book. Left alone to combat their assorted physical ailments, Struldbruggs could at best look forward to an eternity of "envy and impotent desires." They were, Gulliver concluded, "the most mortifying sight I ever beheld...
...wonder: Did Sydney Pollack feel a different kind of whoosh--something like the sound of wind being removed from sails--when he first beheld Sense and Sensibility? Pollack is its executive producer, without whose enthusiasm, it is said, the movie might never have been made. He is one of the few contemporary American directors blessed with a genuinely romantic spirit (Out of Africa) and no small gift for comedy (Tootsie). He is also, by quirk of fate, Lee's chief competitor in the romantic-comedy market niche this season, as the producer-director of Sabrina...
CONQUER! ASSAULT! I WAS DISMAYED AT seeing these words describe the continuing exploration of the depths of the seas. I have been awed by the underwater beauty of the ocean on just one snorkeling trip, and feel privileged to have beheld it. Surely man can leave this last frontier alone! True, there may be medicines to be found in the sea, but more people will die of starvation than by the diseases these might cure. If we are to survive, our primary focus must be worldwide population control. Where do we go after we have depleted the resources...