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...GRANDEST CONCESSION. Australian Greg Norman waving a white playoff towel at Fuzzy Zoeller, who the day before had flapped his towel in mock surrender to Norman. The U.S. Open showed the courtliness of golf and brought a grace note of laughter to sport...
...British India that is as levelheaded as it is evenhanded. More of an intricate tapestry than a flying carpet, Jewel dwells on the British raj in its dotage and behind its gilded scenes, at home though hardly at ease. In the process, it poignantly suggests that even the grandest of empires was made up of very small people and that no subject is more exotic than a divided heart...
...result was not only the largest canvas of Stubbs' career but the grandest in structure and, to modern eyes, the most suggestive. That immense, glossy brown frame of the horse, floating across one's whole field of vision, has the compulsive power of a dream image. In the interest of decorum, Stubbs left out the wounds and weals on Hambletonian's flanks, but his sympathies remained with the animal: white slaver flecks his mouth, the ears lie back flat, and the pink tongue lolls in the aftermath of exhaustion. The creature is attended, none too reverently...
...convention's mood turned nostalgic as it welcomed Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, the G.O.P.'s 1964 presidential nominee and at 75 still its grandest old conservative. As Goldwater, who has undergone surgery for heart and hip ailments in recent years, limped to the podium, few in the hall needed reminding that an electrifying televised campaign speech on Goldwater's behalf 20 years ago by a Hollywood has-been had launched Ronald Reagan on his political career. Reagan aides had hoped that Goldwater would not dwell too much on his old crusades, but the Senator was unswayed...
...handy, playing an important and worthy role as a resource against almost any adversity. Markets and profits and personal enterprise he reads about in newspapers. Mondale knows Government's processes, understands their limits and possibilities and has a feel for how they work. He is Government's grandest product...