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Gromyko also strengthened his personal ties to Brezhnev, taking up hunting so that he could join Brezhnev at his favorite sport. Until then, Gromyko had limited his exercise to morning workouts with barbells and occasional walks. If his hunting started as a political avocation, however, it became a real delight to him. I have never seen him as cheerful as he was one Sunday in 1972 when he entered his Vnukovo dacha before lunchtime proudly bearing a mangled duck he had brought down that morning, smiling with a sincere pleasure he rarely, if ever, shows the world. Through Brezhnev, whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...feel that the most erotic condition of all could not be that of any man or woman, or of any child, or of a human being with two sexes, but that of a very young and effeminate male angel...Such a being may give and take a guiltless delight, wield limitless sexual power without sexual politics, feel all the pleasures of sex with none of the personal risks, can never grow up, never get wise, and never grow...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sennef, | Title: The Androgyny Myth | 2/9/1985 | See Source »

...discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities of speech are a delight. So is the "inexplicable imprecation" for which Levi's great-grandfather was famous: "May he have an accident shaped like an umbrella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chemistry Becomes a Muse the Periodic Table by Primo Levi | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

Speechless with delight, Roby enveloped McLaughlin in a bearhug as the last four seconds of the game ticked away and the squad found its way into the history books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the Odds | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...with collar cuffs and pedalling his way around Chandrapore on a bicycle. Gallantly, he kisses Adeln's hand upon their introduction. When the liberal college, superintendent Richard Fielding (James Fox) talks amicably with Aziz, and even "condescends" to let him sit on his bed, the Indian is giddy with delight...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Awakening in India | 1/9/1985 | See Source »

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