Word: gracefulness
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...asks a thing like ?What d?ya think about going to Disney?? it is already asked and answered. And so, on Saturday last, K.T. of the local cab service drove up our driveway in his Suburban and we loaded in our team. Caroline, six, and Jack and Mary Grace, three apiece, were electric with anticipation. Lucille, age withheld, and our nanny Wendy, eternally youthful, were happy if anxious. I, a newly minted AARP member - hey, I?m not proud; it saved me a c-note on my Orlando minivan booking - was riding shotgun...
...kids to Disney World? I who had been weaned on winter vacations at cozy New England ski lodges - mittens and hearths and hot chocolate with marshmallows - thought this a truly horrid idea. My mind was instantly aswim with visions of large stuffed creatures scaring the beejeezus out of Mary Grace (one of our twins) and of lines, lines, lines, lines. (My Disney experience heretofore dated entirely from the pre-FASTPASS epoch, and more on that anon.) ?Are you crazy?? I added for emphasis...
...Jack,? she ordered. ?Give me the truck.? Jack handed it over. The three of them were all a-giggle as they waited their turn at the scanner; it might as well have been C.S. Lewis?s wardrobe they were about to pass through. When Luci said, ?Come, Mary Grace!? the little one ran headlong to her mother, laughing...
...highlight of each ?CBS SM? year-end show (along with a show-and-tell of endangered species saved) is its annual Obit review, which last December ran for nearly 20 mins. The segments were sensitively presented and expertly edited, the narration flowing with grace and pertinence from one subject to the next, the clips and photos evoking in a few seconds lives whose brilliance or notoriety helped change ours. My wife says she expects to cry at least once during each ?CBS SM.? This farewell montage had us both moist with sorrow and appreciation...
...characters are detailed, familiar figures. Bella Starker, the troupe’s producer, is a rich Manhattan socialite whose Gramercy Park brownstone is “decked out like a James Bond stronghold.” The incest of the First Borns is evident with Jake and Grace, two friends who are already scandalously inseparable at the book’s onset. Then there is peppy and fresh-faced Cam, Rosalie’s friend for years, whose relationship she describes as “old pals with conveniently complementary body parts...