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...because his muscular masculinity was a crucial component of his appeal, Kelly blew away the perfume of sissy-hood that clung to serious dance like a too-tight tutu. His last major choreographic statement was a 1958 "Omnibus" special called "Dancing: A Man?s Game," explicitly aligned dance with sport: Bob Cousy makes a few sassy dribbling moves; Mickey Mantle plays catch with our star. Kelly, the kid who aspired not to dance stardom but to play shortstop for the Pirates (and, considering their record in the 40s, they could have used him) brought out the manly athleticism of entrechats...
Cindy Hickman nearly bled to death the day she gave birth--three months prematurely--to her triplet sons. Weighing less than 2 lbs. each, her babies were alive, but barely. They clung so tenuously to life that her doctors recommended she name them A, B and C. Then, after a year of heroic interventions--brain shunts, tracheotomies, skull remodeling--often requiring emergency helicopter rides to the hospital nearest their rural Tennessee home, the Hickmans learned that their triplets had cerebral palsy...
...kidnappers' initial deadlines passed late last week, Pearl's family and friends clung to the hope that his cool head, innate charm and intelligence would protect him from further harm. "Danny's incredibly resourceful," said Nick Noyes, a friend of Pearl's from his days at the Massachusetts paper North Adams Transcript. "If anyone can get himself out of a mess like this, he can." But Pearl had been caught up in a new wave of anti-American terror, one that doesn't seem to follow any script. His friends and colleagues could do little more than wait...
...flesh, until all was blotted out, all else was silenced. Theories, considerations, principles, consistency, friends, nay even pride and self-respect. Only one thing remained, a terrible hunger for your love, an insatiable thirst for it. That explains my clinging, my holding on to you, I who never clung to anyone. That explains my agony when every woman would possess you at the exclusion of myself. Oh, please, don’t give me your assurances, I do not believe in them...
...experimentally; a consequence of Barbour's theory is that the universe would be filled with more black holes and neutron stars than experts believe. If so, we could know within a decade whether his theory is supported by astronomical observations--and whether the ideas of time we've clung to for most of human history will go the way of the ether and the flat earth...