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...rate, the new rules make World Cup scoring more complicated than triple-decker gin rummy. The most important change is to carefully limit the number of points a skier may score in one event. After reaching the maximum in that event, he must compete in one or both of the others to continue to score. Thus Phil Mahre, whose best downhill showing of the season was a ninth place on Kitzbühel's difficult Hahnenkamm course, nonetheless has an advantage over skiers who do not take the risk. Stenmark decided this season that he needed those extra points...
This seems reasonable, since she is only 17. She is a rarity, a blazing, natural redhead, discovered in Milwaukee in 1979. Top-Top Photographer Albert Watson says that Decker is a face to watch. Nancy, who makes $1,500 a day after six months on the job, thinks so too: "I feel like it's all of a sudden going to go boom, boom. I can just feel it. It's like when you're waiting for a pimple to come up." Not having had time to become jaded or to embrace a pragmatically spartan regimen, she still likes rock...
...Nancy Decker has her eyelashes dyed every six weeks but otherwise does little to her face except bathe it in moonbeams...
...Triple Decker...
...wrong she was, especially in her own case. Granted, she had a point about the stylistic changes since Horace Walpole or, later, those Victorian worthies enshrined in three-decker "Lives and Letters." Vanished are the leisurely epistles addressed to a quasi-public circle of acquaintances (and, between the lines, to posterity); the 20th century goes elsewhere for its literary entertainment and journalism. In all of Woolf's 3,710 collected letters-here rounded off in the last of six stout volumes that have been coming out since 1975-she scarcely ever troubles to paint a scene or describe great...