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...also the age at which you find yourself overcome by an inexplicable impulse to make strange little grunting noises when you stand up, sit down or bend over...
...vice admiral for a running mate did not offer balance to his ticket. But it was his bowing out of the race, in deference to his family, after pledging that he would stay in the campaign all the way, that cost Perot his credibility--permanently. GUNNAR S. JENSON South Bend, Indiana...
...regular TV coverage, even though he essentially controlled the state-run networks. As late as March, the news shows continued to criticize the President mercilessly, a favorite target being the war in Chechnya. "It was ludicrous to control the two major nationwide television stations and not have them bend to your will," says Dresner. In writing, the team adopted a more diplomatic tone. "Wherever an event is held," they wrote, "care should be taken to notify the state-run TV and radio stations to explain directly the event's significance and how we want it covered." Beginning in April, Russia...
...something deceptively buoyant and elastic about the way a vault appears to unfold on TV. But to see it from 50 ft. away is to understand that the vault is a brutish thing. The poles, especially the ones Bubka uses, are as stiff as lampposts, and their throat-catching bend is the product of extraordinary speed and gristle. Bubka's virtue, or one of them, anyway, is that he makes the transformation from visceral thunk at the jump's base to airy finesse at its apogee look effortless. At the last second, he offers the bar a crisp, flapping salute...
...cleric but also the distinctly unusual relationship between snobbish Charlotte, the bishop's chilly daughter, and Rose, a lusty "pit girl," or woman miner. It should not be overlooked that Rose is the novel's title figure. Smith's ending is not quite a hanky dampener, but it does bend a hard tale of murder and mine disaster a long way toward the never-never of historical romance...