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...mourn that the actors are gone, the continuity is broken, and that there is no active tradition that one can grab hold of," he said...
This wide availability triggers impulse buying. Says Flor Deleo, president of the Miami Flower Exchange: "You walk into a supermarket, see the flowers, and they're attractive and inexpensive. You grab a bottle of wine for $2.99. What's $2.99 more for a nice bouquet of flowers?" Trying to cash in on impulse purchases, 7-Eleven convenience stores in South Florida sell single long-stemmed roses alongside the soft drinks and beer...
...athletes are an interesting breed. They're willng to toil in obscurity while their varsity brethren grab headlines and glory. This team is no different. It plays for no publicity at all. "When the season started, I told these guys `We're not playing for the Boston Herald,''' coach Steve Bzomowski said...
...20th century, however, that rates the greatest exhibition space and is likely to grab the most attention. Besides the Orient Express tableau, created from an actual car that was once part of the fabled train, there is an arrangement of hats displayed in glass cases and perched on tree branches as if the silken, veiled and feathered extravagances were so many nesting birds. A full-figured mannequin lounges unclothed in erotic exhaustion on a rumpled bed, her lingerie strewn on the floor all around her. A whole range of vintage Schiaparellis is displayed nearby in a kind of scaled-down...
...early in this contest, it looked as if Harvard would need more than a statistical advantage in offensive boards to grab a victory...