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...confident but not offensive, self-centered but no braggard. He intersperses his jokes with winks and smiles that expose the boyish split between his front teeth. However dubious people may consider his athletic achievements--six Mr. Olympia and five Mr. Universe titles--nobody can call him a bore. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a P.T. Barnum with muscles...
Television coverage too had much to answer for. It only bore witness to, it did not instigate, Senator Percy's nasty innuendoes about tax evasion by Lance, and Percy's subsequent smarmy retraction. Moreover, TV's steady eye on the hearings produced what no amount of print reporting could do: a dramatic switch of public sympathy to Lance, who, despite the damaging admissions he had to make, carried himself more impressively under relentless scrutiny than any other congressional witness within memory...
...match with Jones came about because Margaret received a letter from Townsend announcing his plans to marry another. "That evening, I became engaged to Tony. It was no coincidence," Margaret told her friends. She has also revealed her doubts about remarrying: "It would probably be too much of a bore." Her steady date for theatergoing and vacations is Roderic ("Roddy") Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 18 years her junior who has lately removed his single earring and cut his shaggy locks. He will not, however, accompany Margaret on her official visit to the U.S. this month...
...many other actors who deserve star billing in the housing story far more than I. If you are to evaluate what was done, and how it was done, it would seem, only fair to examine why it was done. But frankly, such rehashing of the past is a bore...
...ludicrously out of place, a white shrimp boat with canvas canopy chugging through the Gulf of Maine, 120 miles northeast of Boston. It flew no flag, bore no name and carried no fishing gear. The reason the craft had sailed so far north became immediately apparent once suspicious Coast Guard officers went aboard and sniffed the air: below deck were 859 burlap bales containing 25 tons of pot (estimated market value: $15 million...