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...life, Andropov was a figure far removed from the world of average Soviets. The tears of distraught family members made him seem more human in death. Before the lid could be closed on Andropov's coffin, his wife bent to kiss his pale forehead. She tenderly caressed his sparse hair and then kissed him again. She had behaved at that moment of grief as any Russian woman would. For many Soviets witnessing the scene on their television screens, that moving glimpse of private pain seemed to cut through the hundreds of thousands of words that spewed forth in official obituaries...
...ever seen. Promising to consummate the marriage six years hence, Ruskin told his bride Effie Gray that childbirth would ruin her beauty as well as interfere with their traveling in Europe so he might look at art. When the six years were up, Ruskin reneged, accusing the distraught Effie of insanity. She countered by obtaining an annulment on the basis of her husband's "incurable impotency." Ruskin presumably never again took the risk of encountering a naked woman; Effie married the painter John Everett Millais and lived happily ever after...
...What am I going to do?" asked a distraught Manhattan banker who, at 25, had invested $25,000 of his parents' savings with Saxon. He was seeking advice from the office of New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. A New Jersey caller reported buying $250,000 worth of gold from Saxon. Declared one weary investigator: "Many of these people even sound well educated and experienced...
...pool its resources for Brett. Even a nursing home there conducted a "Rock for Brett" rocking chair marathon. Yet there are numerous other children around the country who also need help--children who may not live in towns like Wauconda or Geneva, or whose parents may be too distraught or too busy to engage in elaborate fundraising. For parents--and especially for their terminally ill children--certain experiments might be therapeutic as well...
...ordered the KGB to arrest two close friends of Brezhnev's daughter Galina for diamond smuggling. News of the arrests was leaked to the Western press, and Galina was dispatched to the Kremlin hospital, supposedly because of a "nervous breakdown." According to the author, Brezhnev's doubly distraught daughter attended her father's funeral in the company of two well-dressed secret policemen, who appeared to be members of the family. The funeral was televised live, Medvedev explains, and the KGB was afraid that Galina might cause a scandal by doing something untoward...