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...WANT MY HARD-EARNED HEALTH Net insurance money used for expensive treatment of terminally ill patients, and I hope I'll feel the same way should I become terminally ill. HELEN HANSMA Goleat, California Via E-mail...
ASKED TO DEFINE THE IDEALIZED WOMAN WHO HAS COME TO BE known as the Cosmo Girl, editor in chief Helen Gurley Brown once replied, "She has always been sexy, slender and bosomy." The latter adjective--so evocative of old-fashioned feminine allure, of torpedo bras and Pursettes, of Helen Gurley Brown herself (though she is actually wafer thin)--describes what is probably the Cosmo Girl's most famous attribute. "A beautiful bosom is a beautiful bosom," Brown elaborated. "If you don't have one, you look on with awe and envy...
...about him an inchoate rage tempered, if that's the word we want, by self-pity and a certain raw intelligence, which has led him to jailhouse lawyering and several stays of execution. It is largely the latter quality, and the challenging seductiveness of his manner, that leads Sister Helen to see in him the possibilities of redemption...
...Sister Helen can find only limited possibilities for mercy in this situation. Perhaps if Poncelet can be persuaded to admit his full complicity in the crime, he will find some peace, some honor, in his final moments. Perhaps if he does so, the victims' families will find a closure more consoling than revenge...
...Sarandon have held in reserve during their hypnotic struggle for his soul--that its final moments leave us awash in emotion. How hard it is to achieve even modest states of grace in this world. How patiently we must work to achieve them. How easy, absent a Sister Helen, it is to miss them entirely...