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...Reagan's Grand Tour had indeed gone well. The President nodded, literally, in the Vatican, but from then on moved through an extremely taxing schedule with grace, affability and aplomb. He read his big set speeches to members of the British Parliament and the West German Bundestag with flawless timing and resonance, and drew a laughing cheer from the Bonn politicians with a deft putdown of a solitary heckler. The man in the rue, via or Strasse could hardly help noticing that Reagan neither looked nor sounded like the crude, hip-shooting nuclear cowboy so often drawn by European...
Although the book lacks any humor and quality, it inevitably will sell well because of the implicit guarantee. You come with us kid, and you've got it made a high grade point average, a flawless transcript, a ticket to the grad school of your choice. "What more could an eager freshman ask for? As the author argue. "What you have actually learned is something else entirely...no one expects you to "know" anything. They just want to see that little piece of paper covered with honors...
...cash and borrowed money to buy hard assets that might hold their value. In January 1980 gold hit an alltime high of $875 per oz. in New York, and silver sold for $50.35, also a record. Diamonds became an investor's best friend, price of a one-karat flawless stone headed toward $61,100. A handful of fine-arts fans applauded when Juliet and Her Nurse, a 19th century oil painting by British Artist J.M.W. Turner, was sold for $6.4 million during 6½ minutes of frenzied bidding. A 1952 Mickey Mantle bubble-gum baseball card sold...
...would be difficult to overpraise the one-man magnetic field that is Mokae's Sam, or the audacious emotional tightrope walking that Price does with Hally, or the unyielding, unquestioning goodness that Glover puts into Willie. A taut grace governs all under Fugard's flawless direction. The final scene will not leave the mind's lens. Willie shoots his carfare money into a jukebox. Lena Home chants the lyrics of Little Man, You ve Had a Busy Day. The two men take each other's arms and glide across the stage in the manner of Rogers...
...alligator, went Beman, camel blazer, tassled loafers and all. Pate then cast Tournament Players Club course Architect Pete Dye, 56, in too. "Jerry made us both look like a pair of awkward storks," says Beman. "Then he makes the most perfect dive you've ever seen. Absolutely flawless form." All wet or not, Beman, pro golfs tour commissioner since 1974, knows good form when he sees...