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...already familiar with Murdoch's saucy Sun and sleazy News of the World, and the great worry is that the Times will itself adopt what the paper just four months ago described as "the breathless, grubby vision of the world inherent in the Murdoch style." Tongue tucked in cheek, Daily Mirror Columnist Keith Waterhouse told readers not to fret. "The girls," he wrote, "will appear in the Times Literary Supplement wearing fishnet stockings and mortarboard...
...people to learn to be generous and compassionate, and for minorities to learn to be magnanimous, he says. "We have done a disservice to whites by not showing them what it's like to be a minority. Now many people may think I'm mischievous and talking tongue-in-cheek, but I also think it's important for Blacks to be in the majority," Willie adds...
...leadership-and the helmsman played it masterly. He let justice take its course, waited for the dust to settle, then severed the troublesome member with one clean stroke. In announcing Tekere's dismissal, Mugabe denied any connection with the murder trial. Mugabe's tongue-in-cheek reason for the ouster: "I felt he needed a bit of rest so he can recover from the pressures and strains...
...President and his wife at Robins Air Force Base near Macon, Ga. At Plains, they received an even warmer welcome from some 200 friends and neighbors. A boy gave Carter a Christmas tree ornament-a glass mouse. Several women kissed him. Then, grinning shyly and wiping lipstick from his cheek, Jimmy took Rosalynn's hand and they walked up the drive to their home...
...movement. It prolongs and accents the pain of a woman's beating on a street corner but softens the blows by dissecting and punctuating them-turning the series of hurt faces into studied caricatures. Paul's slow-motion salutory kiss-which finally reaches his daughter's cheek-becomes at once a tortured eternity and a muscle spasm which lands like a hammer. It is clear these two aren't getting along...