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...permanent substratum of the capital--the one layered with beat reporters, academics and junior Senators yet to head a committee. She never babbled and showed little patience for those who did. I was scared to death when I met her. She was quick to judge someone a bore, though ready to reverse the call on receipt of evidence to the contrary. I'd been at her house for dinner 50 times before she wondered whether she might be invited to mine. "I don't mind lap eating," she said. Having missed the bustle of a happy family life...
...Bailey Circus animal trainer; of cancer; in Venice, Fla. Gebel-Williams, the best-known animal trainer in the world, diminutive at 5 ft. 4 in., trained tigers and leopards to jump through flaming hoops and wrap their bodies around his neck. Though a gifted trainer, he lost teeth and bore deep scars from the huge animals, with whom he performed in 12,000 shows. When Kenny, one of his beloved panthers, died, his skin was preserved and displayed in Gebel-Williams' living room...
...camp and dorm-room markets constitute our equivalent of the Christmas retail season. It’s not difficult to imagine myself as one of the young men sifting through racks of twin-extra-long sheets; I distinctly remember taking it as a good omen that my sheet pattern bore the name “Harvard.” Now, aside from the “Cambridge” quilt pattern, omens of any kind are few and far between in the bedding department...
...India, her lover and Dacoit mentor Vikram Mallah had taught her, "If you are going to kill, kill twenty, not just one. For if you kill twenty, your fame will spread; if you kill only one, they will hang you as a murderess." The Bandit Queen?s story certainly bore out that maxim. But the maxim has a corollary: The more people you kill; the wider the clamor for revenge...
...permanent substratum of the capital - the one layered with beat reporters, academics and junior Senators yet to head a committee. She never babbled and showed little patience for those who did. I was scared to death when I met her. She was quick to judge someone a bore, though ready to reverse the call on receipt of evidence to the contrary. I'd been at her house for dinner 50 times before she wondered whether she might be invited to mine. "I don't mind lap eating," she said. Having missed the bustle of a happy family life...