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...never would have expected what followed. After two and a half years of now playing my saxophone after a bout with lockjaw (don't ask), I let it all hang out (so to speak). I played shapes, colors, impulses. I closed my eyes and imagined myself narrating--no, animating--a "Sick and Twisted" flick with each explosion of sound. At times I wasn't sure if I was playing or if I was just along for the ride. My fingers flew up and down the length of the horn; my lips were tense and taut at one turn and lovingly...
...right, so our generation's problems and poor prospects have brought about this bout of nostalgia. Yet instead of taking the logical next step, we have recoiled from...
Some of the damage, typically, was self-inflicted; Clinton suffered another attack of premature capitulation. (He had a bad bout of it last year during the budget fight, junking his proposed BTU tax at the first sign of protest and backing off grazing-fee increases when Western Senators threatened to stampede.) The latest relapse hit, not coincidentally, when the National Governors' Association met in Washington last weekend. Clinton considers himself a lifetime member of the N.G.A. and sometimes forgets that Governors are not as important to him now, compared with members of Congress. In White House meetings, Clinton stunned allies...
...play chances and conceding man-down goals less than one-eighth of the time. With McCann and hard-shooting Derek Maguire (4-17-21) gunning away from the point and guys like Farrell and Kirk Nielsen (3-3-6) mixing it up in front of late, only the occasional bout of over-passing can derail a power-play unit for which superlatives fail...
...Oregon. She withdrew from the event and has traveled with bodyguards ever since. (It apparently has not distracted her; she won the women's championship at the nationals last weekend.) The vulnerability of even 200-lb. bruisers was demonstrated sensationally last November, when a parachutist disrupted the heavyweight championship bout between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe in Las Vegas...