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...vintage performance, full of the verve Gorbachev displayed at the height of his powers. Former staff members also described how the boss had tried to buck up their flagging spirits the day before his television address with an unsentimental farewell chat in the Kremlin office, assuring them that they need not worry about the future. As a participant put it, "The moment anyone was tempted to give way to gloom and doom, he just would not allow it." But those who could read Gorbachev's lexicon of looks saw something more going on last week behind the remarkable show...
Beginning the list of winless teams is Columbia. The Lions have been less than impressive while sliding to an 0-4 mark. Forward Par Downing (19 ppg) and guard Buck Jenkins (15 ppg) are among the league-leaders in scoring, though...
...today are treated as equal citizens. Some of the stories she tells are horrific--doctors perform a Caesarian section on a dying woman against her will--while others are merely unsettling--the woman creator of thirtysomething has her script rejected repeatedly until her husband submits it under the name "Buck Trent...
...about five minutes the three of us sat down buck naked on his couch," one of the streakers said. "A couple people walked in, including some girls, and we just sat there, no big deal...
...being ridiculous when it isn't repetitive and boring, having the effect of an affidavit rather than an aphrodisiac. Still, if Friday hadn't padded her pages with psychobabble about women claiming their sexual destiny, and Simon & Schuster hadn't been willing to print anything to make a buck, Women on Top would be available only by mail and would arrive in a plain brown wrapper...