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...keep this up, I will lock you in your room! etc.). I might not succeed, but I do know I would not curl up on the sofa and chat about it. And I would not tuck away a soiled dress as if my daughter had caught the bridal bouquet, even under the guise of preserving it as potential evidence. But, then again, I would never have written a book like The Private Lives of the Three Tenors, hinting to the publisher that my knowledge of Placido Domingo was more than platonic...
...owed after Fallopian-tube surgery. Scott Smith, 29, an uninsured ski instructor, painted the ambulance bays to pay the $5,300 surgical bill he incurred after breaking his leg in a ski accident. A local florist is working off $275 she owed for a colonoscopy by providing a bouquet for the lobby each week. A 39-year-old housewife whose family racked up more than $2,000 in family emergency-room visits paid her final $220 by donating a handmade baby quilt...
...finally handed in the thesis an hour and a half late. I slammed it down on the desk of the receptionist, I turned around and there was a bouquet of flowers waiting from my thesis advisor," he said. "I had this terrific feeling of warmth and generosity for all people. I just started bestowing favors on everybody...
...bouquet money says that State of the Union (1948) is just the thing to warm the voters' cockles on this schizophrenic weekend. No one does a Washington fable better than Capra, and no one flings woo like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Tracy plays a self-made man who, when lured into an idealistic run for the presidency, makes a stop at the vipers' nest. Along the way, he tracks down his soul, ditches chippie Angela Lansbury and falls back in love with wife Kate, who shimmers here with inside-and-out loveliness. Yes, this one outwags...
...style." An acquaintance says Lewinsky was "one of the very few people where after the first 15 minutes you would remember her... She's very outgoing. Very extravagant." Once, she says, Lewinsky went to the birthday party of a woman she had never met before, arriving with a huge bouquet of balloons as a gift. There were always instant familiarity and intimacy. Says the acquaintance: "It wasn't so much that she'd be personal in a one-on-one conversation but with a group of five people she had never met before...