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...truly messy business. Out of respect, the television does not show the Red Cross "Disaster Services" medical tents, each of which fill with a platoon of heat exhaustion victims. A man wearing a doctor's glove stands at each aid station with a handful of vaseline. Runners grab a blob and smear it around their groin and between the legs to prevent chafing...
...Patricia Bowman -- the name virtually every news organization now felt free to use -- told ABC's Diane Sawyer that she came forward so that other rape victims would not be scared off by her experiences. "I'm not a blue blob. I'm a person," she said. "I have nothing to be ashamed of." According to her lawyer, David Roth, Bowman turned down offers of up to $500,000 to tell her story, choosing Sawyer because of her "impeccable reputation for integrity." PrimeTime paid her nothing, but she told Sawyer she would not rule out taking money for future interviews...
...exoneration, Smith celebrated with his family, then spent the weekend catching up on his tan at the estate. Meanwhile, his accuser remained in hiding in a vain attempt to maintain her anonymity. Only hours after the jury read its verdict, TV technicians on some channels dramatically dissolved the blurry blob that had hidden her face from viewers while the trial proceeded. From now on she will be recognizable as the woman who accused William Kennedy Smith of rape -- and was not believed...
...Soviet Union? That huge blob of blood red that dominated maps of the Eurasian landmass for 70 years now broken up into a crazy quilt of squirming lines enclosing a kaleidoscope of colors? The concept is even harder to grasp than the idea of a noncommunist Soviet Union. There had once -- for centuries, in fact -- been something like that, in the form of the Russian empire. But no monolithic state covering that immense area -- none...
...told him not to walk under that exhaust fan," Martin told me, pointing toward an unsightly blob of metal protruding from the building next door. "I told him he might get grease on his clothes...