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...book could easily have become an understandable but embarrassing statement of grief, or a father's equally embarrassing eulogy. This one is neither. Gunther is interested in neither tears nor personal royalties (both his proceeds and the publisher's profits go to cancer research for children). Without fuss, in simple, almost conversational style, he expresses the love and comradeship he felt for his son, gives a step-by-step account of cancer's inexorable victory. In so doing, Gunther arouses in the reader an almost deliberate passion to help find the dark enemy and destroy...
...Mallard had put up an awful fuss. Even after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had charged her with the murder herself she wouldn't shut up. They let her out of jail after a few hours, and what did Amy do? She ran off and hid in Savannah and said she was scared and got her name in the papers...
...break off: to introduce la Señora and her grey poodle, Negrita, to the delegates. When the Perón speech was over, most Argentines, well aware that the revisions would be steamrollered through next week's constitutional convention, wondered what all the fuss had been about...
...taking care of him and was told that Disraeli's doctor was a homeopath.* The Queen was even more worried; she suggested a consultation with regular doctors. But medical etiquette forbade any orthodox doctor working on a case with a homeopath. Eventually the Queen raised such a fuss that both schools of doctors got together long enough before Disraeli died to agree that he had bronchitis...
Opening nights, with all of their fuss & feathers, were traditionally no fair test of the Met's ability. As the week wore on, critics found some things to applaud more heartily: the season's first Götterdammerung, the sound and spirit of Conductor Wilfred Pelletier's orchestra in Mignon, Cloe Elmo and Jussi Bjoerling's Il Trovatore, and the excitement of Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini's L'Elisir D'Amore...