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...number six, Beren, who had lost some fifteen pounds because of a change in diet, was playing his singles match with some expected unease. While making most of the easier strokes, be still seemed a bit off in his timing with some of the shorter range volleys. Just missing several close shots. After moving to a 5-2 lead in the first set, Beren took advantage of his opponent's nonexistent backhand and hit them there as often as possible, After Barry Judge often returned into the net. Judge, however, was not depending on his backhand. He could hit well...
Actors, or more correctly, "stars," usually fall into the latter category. Goldman realizes how much pressure our dearly idolized must undergo to maintain their prestige; he also realizes that if he's fifteen pages into a script and its star has yet to appear, he'll probably be told that his text is "misstructured." Stars, he asserts, demand that all the witty lines come from their characters' mouths, all the clever ideas from their characters' heads...
...Fifteen acts primarily from the Northeast will be taped for the show on Friday night at Tufts University's McPhee Hall. Ten other acts will be taped Thursday night at MIT's Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity...
...underlying pessimism and cynicism had come to pervade Italy. I recall being shocked by a conversation with my Italian landlord when he told me that Italian history for the past fifteen hundred years was a national disgrace, and that he would leave for America right away if he was a younger...
...Fifteen minutes away at the City of Hope National Medical Center was a pediatric research center, endowed by a British couple, for the Queen to dedicate and tour. Outside, she stooped to talk with young patients, all seriously ill, some with limbs amputated. When she reached to shake one boy's hand, for a terrible moment it seemed as if it had come off; the limb turned out to be a china toy, and the imperturbable Queen passed it to one of her ladies in waiting and continued chatting...