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...four years as governor. During this time, she has done little if anything to antagonize the governor or the people. One pollster noted that the contrast between her actions as acting governor and Stovall's have been a strong mark in Collins favor. Good exercise of power tends to blur the memory of the perceived bad exercise of power. Anyone who wondered whether a woman could handle the job of Governor of Kentucky could be shown that in fact the commonwealth has had a woman governor for 492 days...
Young did not resist. Through a blur of pain and fear, feeling the blade of his knife scraping up and down her back, she tried to keep a conversation going. "I quickly decided that if I lived through this, I was going to know as much about him as possible," recalls Young, 36, an emergency-room nurse who had often treated victims of rape but never imagined it could happen to her. "I kept putting my hands all over him, trying to feel for moles or scars or some identifying mark...
...reduced, it ordered inspectors, in effect, to work harder for the same pay. Where chickens used to whiz past inspectors at 70 a minute, the line has been speeded up to as many as 105 a minute, prompting inspectors to take caffeine pills and complain about "hypnosis" from the blur of birds...
Some news watchers might have felt betrayed by the remarks of Reynolds' friends, believing that objective reporters shouldn't permit themselves to blur the line between fact-telling and story-portraying, especially when the subject of the story is a close friend. But we should consider the circumstances. What it came down to was a bunch of close friends doing what came naturally--recalling the best moments of their departed colleague's career, trying to be journalists and humans at the same time, pursuits not yet mutually exclusive, Said Reynolds' co-anchor Peter Jennings. "What we did today was what...
Besides, Barthelme's vision is a convincing one, at many points delicately rendered. Though his characters, male and female, blur together, their situations remain in the mind--the neighbors reduced to enmity by their dogs' recurrent fights; the man whose divorced wife throws herself into a swimming pool, fully clothed, when he arrives at a party. And the ways in which his women demonstrate their sureness, so different from the men's limpness, are as varied as they are inescapable. Perhaps the most startling is the moment when Carmel Seaver, the 17-year-old in "Grapette," absent-mindedly begins...