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BOSTON--A new appliance that can chill beer, freeze ice cream and cook pizza has college students clamoring, and the inventor, a former computer sales agent, crossing his fingers...
...that memory shuffles chronology like a deck of dog-eared cards on a rainy afternoon. His film is arranged as a series of vignettes, in which life's everyday epiphanies crowd out the sanctified rituals of birth, marriage and death. Eileen and her husband share a meal whose chill is punctuated only by their separate smiles at a radio comedian. Mother falls asleep with memories in her ear: Dad rasping for her to come to him, her young children answering the question "How much do you love me?" with an eager "A pound of sugar!" Davies recalls all these sights...
...words "obsessive fan" cause a premonitory chill among celebrities these days. Increasingly they have seen that the most fervent admirers can turn into crazed attackers. The problem has become more evident since the beginning of the decade, when Mark David Chapman killed John Lennon and John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan in a bizarre bid for the affection of actress Jodie Foster. There has been a rash of ugly episodes, some murderous, some merely distressing...
...women who have lived and come of age in the 16 years since Roe was decided," Justice Harry Blackmun proclaimed in his dissent. "For today, the women of this nation will retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows...
...chill wind does blow if abortion restrictions are established which limit the opportunity for safe abortions only to the more affluent in our country. The breeze will become even more frigid if a woman's right to choose an abortion is stripped completely...