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...bewildered figure who complies with any request: "That's better that's better, Little Gloria--only smile, please, smile smile smile smile!" Later she becomes pathetically grateful for romantic attention. Some adolescent scenes might have been snipped from a Philip Barry comedy: when 16-year-old Gloria develops a crush on a neighbor, an aunt informs her, "You can't marry him--because if you did, why--well--your name would be--Smith--wouldn't it? You'd be--MRS. SMITH!" The sobbing girl is consoled by her grandmother: "Maybe he could call himself Smythe--wouldn't that...
...against a takeover bid by younger, perhaps more radical officers? Would he be as good as his word in returning Africa's largest country to democracy after a transitional period of a year? How, above all, would the soft-spoken and cautious Suwar al Dahab manage to tackle the crush of problems that had buried even Africa's most hardened survivor? Said one Western diplomat: "All the factors that overwhelmed Nimeiri--unrest in the south, a deteriorating economy, drought and a flood of refugees--may well overwhelm his successors...
...Crimson was expected to crush Northeastern but the Crimson didn't expect the hosts to go down without a whimper...
...pests, which seem harder to stamp out than waste, fraud and abuse. Efforts to exterminate them have failed miserably, so Congressman Silvio Conte has declared a war against what he says is a "1 trillion-strong" invasion of the hallowed halls. The irrepressible Massachusetts Republican has launched a "Conte Crush-a- Cockroach Campaign," the slogan of which seems to be the rather snappy "Squash One for the Gipper...
...sets up the denouement of Things Invisible to See, narrating from both Ben's and Clare's perspectives, and establishing deliberately the eternal relevance of concepts like death, good, evil, love and baseball. In Ben's first visit to Clare, Willard captures all the agony of the first crush and even love at first sight...