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...like a highly tuned sports car, a Ferrari really." If the common allusions to machines bother Martina, she conceals hurt feelings well these days. Little seems to distress her, including a turmoil of counselors and coaches, who peck at computers as she plays, as though they were operating her by remote control. "The computer has done nothing for my tennis but wonders for my diet," she says happily. "I live not from one match to the next but from one meal to the next. I like to eat." Wimbledon champion and a size eight, she has "never felt so comfortable...
...aware that one should not bother a parent, even the wife of a doctor, with complaints of the body. But then, you are no ordinary mother. Who else would write to her 18-year-old son, "Adieu, my darling, I kiss you tenderly with a pedal point to be sustained until the next kiss"? Small wonder that I could not bear to be parted from you, and that your death drove me to withdrawal from society and into the winding passages of Time, Memory...
...Gerrymandering of the clues to conceal her ex-lover's identity. So still high on the list of suspects is Andrew Peacock, 44, a dashing member of Australia's last Conservative government, who is a longstanding friend of the actress. MacLaine now considers all the fuss a bother. "Affairs of state," she told a pack of sleuthing British reporters, "are more important than the state of my affairs...
...policies and other areas of bilateral tension. But Andropov was friendlier in an exchange with Harriman about the Soviet translator. Said Harriman, who had met the translator with previous Soviet leaders: "I've known this man such a long time, I hope these past associations don't bother you." Andropov laughed and replied, "No problem for me. Don't worry about that...
...Calkins laid down the law I felt, and I suspect that many of my colleagues felt, that we had just been shown how limited our role really was. We were not advisers speaking to the Corporation members on an equal plane. Instead we were a collective bother that had to be tolerated so that we would fill the role of deflecting student criticism...