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...right to create her own characters. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara sprang from everything Mitchell knew and felt about a time that was still fresh in her region's memory. Ripley's self-imposed handicap shows in the dialogue. Mitchell gave her sardonic hero the best lines, hard- bitten and vivid in the Raymond Chandler style. "I've seen eyes like yours above a dueling pistol," he says to Scarlett. "They evoke no ardor in the male breast." Ripley's Rhett is frequently wordy and inelegant: "You're dead weight -- unlettered, uncivilized, Catholic, and an exile from everything decent...
FUNNY, ISN'T IT. The victimizers have suddenly become the victims at the Law School. The activists who just weeks ago blocked the entrance to Dean Robert C. Clark's office, effectively shutting it down for the day, now complain of being bitten by their prey...
...both Los Angeles and New York City. "Menus are different, taste buds are different on the two coasts," observes Adam Tihany, a proprietor of the Italian bistro Remi, which serves in midtown Manhattan and Santa Monica. Almost any other method of expansion would be simpler. But some people bitten by the restaurant bug just cannot resist trying to conquer the two towns...
...contrary, Kim's sad case is only too common. Gambling researchers say that of the estimated 8 million compulsive gamblers in America, fully 1 million are teenagers. Unlike Kim, most live far from casinos, so they favor sports betting, card playing and lotteries. Once bitten by the gambling bug, many later move on to casinos and racetrack betting. "We have always seen compulsive gambling as a problem of older people," says Jean Falzon, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, based in New York City. "Now we are finding that adolescent compulsive gambling is far more pervasive than...
...There's not much pressure," Dry bubbles. "I bet my teammates are feeling a bit snake-bitten, to get so far and come up short against these guys two years in a row. Does that matter? I'm not sure. We're a young team. We're thirsty. Some of our guys are just out of the breweries. Does that matter? I'm not sure...