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...scene Wayne clapped Kate's shoulder and shoved her so forcefully to the ground that she scraped her knee against a stone. In a moment a Band-Aid was applied, her hair rearranged, and she uncomplainingly reshot the scene. Wayne developed a cough from the dust. Between camera takes he hacked fitfully and drank endless glasses of water. He was also a bit woozy from having been knocked cold by his seven-year-old daughter, who had accidentally clobbered him on his right temple with a nine iron a few days before...
...Come over and pick us up.' " The first night the Kunsts made it 14 miles to Owatonna, then collapsed with sore feet in a city park. But gradually they toughened up and, equally important, became adept at hustling meals and lodging; they were presented with everything from cough drops by the Smith Brothers to two cases of C-rations by an Air Force colonel in Ankara. In Manhattan, they stayed for a week as guests of a Holiday Inn but caused some consternation when they brought their mule right into the lobby. The mule was promptly...
...administration, even a drastic cutback in men and increase in women would not have more than a very short term effect on giving patterns in general. What's more the facts and statistics available for recent years tend to disprove assertions that women cannot be counted on to cough up large amounts of money to their alma mater...
...headed back to Harvard in the fall of my junior year. And though I had officially withdrawn from the university in February, Harvard had no qualms about my return as long as I could cough up the money. People greeted me with surprise. They'd playfully give me a hard time: "So the California chauvinist has returned...
...second. The director and the actors must build all the visual and verbal humor upon the nearly barren skeleton of the script and, at each performance, the actors must keenly tune the pace and style to suit the particular audience in order to thwart that "first sinister cough of boredom," as Sir Noel so aptly put it. At the Tufts Arena Theater, on Friday night at least, no one coughed...