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Gossip is rarely that wild. From the morning of the first individual folly of the race, gossip has been the normal nattering background noise of civilization: Molly Goldberg at her kitchen window, Voltaire at the water cooler. To say that gossip has been much condemned is like saying that sex has sometimes been held in low esteem. It is true, but it misses some of the fun of the thing...
...bold, decisive action along with the uses of power and force. After graduating in 1938, he joined a group of young officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser, who plotted an armed revolt against the British presence. At that time, Sadat was the hothead talking of blowing up British installations; the cooler Nasser dissuaded...
...Five Grand Cafe, is leading a petition drive to move the thermometer back. Says Smith of the new publicity glare: "It's caused my business to fall off 20% to 30%." But Baudouine is unapologetic. "This kind of notoriety is good for the community," he says. Cooler heads among Bullhead City businessmen seem to agree. According to a membership survey by the Chamber of Commerce, 90% think the summer superlative is "good for business...
...first love of his Cracow schooldays. "To the end of his life," writes Tennant, "Conrad would record no other occasion on which his heart leaped or his breath was taken away, and indeed it may be that in a sense this was his deepest sexual experience." Conrad was cooler and more practical in his feelings toward Jessie George, the Englishwoman he married in 1896 and used as a servant for most of her life. Nor did he manage to make and keep many friends. Only Ford Madox Ford, with whom he collaborated, and the sickly Stephen Crane became more than...
...edges of the crowd--for 500 have come to watch--bodybuilders no longer teenage stand, moving in and out of the 90-degree sun and the dark, cooler, canvas covered hall. They all weat T-shirts bearing the name of their gym; they all wear their hair medium-length and lacquered; they all wear disinterested expressions or slight scowls; and they don't talk much to each other, or the short, breasty women beside them...