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...prepared for them. Printers at the Post, she recalls, tried to embarrass her years ago by telling off-color stories. "I'd look right at them and say, 'I don't understand it. Could you explain it to me?' Have you ever seen a printer blush...
...shown its best face and best strength when it has defined rugged individuals as those people rugged enough to come to the aid of their fellows, and intelligent enough to recognize when they need such aid in return. Could there be some national embarrassment in that, a Wallace Beery blush suggesting that Americans risk becoming sissified when they acknowledge normal human dependencies? Who should be called a rugged individual these days? Lee Iacocca? All Iacocca needed was a billion dollars from the Government, and he was ready to stand alone...
Rick's soon-to-be wife, played with a Bergmanesque subtlety by the imperious Tawny Kitean is an innocent, whom Israel gives an other-worldly quality by providing only sketchy biographical details. Her blush is that of the angels when a co-worker tells her in a mocking voice, salted with the weight of wisdom. "It seems like only yesterday I taught you how to give a blow...
...from the Eucharistic King convent awoke before dawn, attended Mass, then braced themselves for violence. Small wonder: the nuns had signed up to serve as poll watchers in the northern town of Vigan, where for decades local thugs have rigged elections with intimidating tactics that would make a Mafioso blush. But throughout the day, the women stood firm. When the mayor swept up to a polling center with three Jeepfuls of cronies armed with fraudulent ballots, Sister Teresita Felicitas blocked their way. Elsewhere, when a young tough ordered Sister Proxedor to leave her poll-watching center, she stood her ground...
Among the questions he asks, before getting down to more complicated business, are her weight (both he and she blush) and eye color. "Blue," she says. He looks up from his Army form for a fond moment. "I never argue with a lady about the color of her eyes." But it comes out that Ratliff, who is turning 19 as she sits in the recruitment office, did not finish high school. Female recruits must be graduates. "I have to send a lot of good people out the door because of that diploma," he tells...