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...trained on a single horse. In the diffident manner that marks his style, the diminutive three-year-old, a crooked white blaze crossing his handsome forehead, hung well back. He settled into sixth place in the 1,600-m contest, moving along at a leisurely gallop that offered no hint of the fireworks to come...
...Lucy, who marries a patient, loving man. Although the couple move to Long Island and have three children, Lucy's thoughts never stray far from Momma. Each week she returns to her stepmother's Brooklyn apartment, where she complains that her husband "is not the man I married." No hint of the husband's failing is offered, but one suspects he sins only in offering Lucy no tragedy around which to shape her life...
Admittedly, traditional views have made women susceptible this problem of the all consuming love. I know women who act on benevolent, if not selfless, motives to devote their lives to others. Their actions don't contain the slightest hint of self distruction, but their actions have ended up killing them spiritiually, emotionally, or physically...
...taskmaster is notoriously difficult to please. Cigarette dangling from his hand and his Tiny Tim-style ringlets bouncing on his shoulders, he strides to the middle of the floor to show them how the steps should be done. Morris, 35, is tall and bulky. There is more than a hint of flab around his waist, an authentic beer belly, the result of a , prodigious thirst that can cause him to put away as many as four bottles within an hour. No one in the room looks less like a dancer. But as he performs the individual steps, they suddenly coalesce...
When it came time to deny the obvious, the cool and unflappable James Baker did so with a straight face and a practiced hint of sadness. Like a compassionate schoolteacher calmly instructing a roomful of dim students, the Secretary of State repeatedly insisted that election-year politics had nothing to do with last week's announcement of the Administration's plan to assist the former Soviet Union. "We've been working on it for months," Baker explained, adding that the President wanted his proposals made public before Boris Yeltsin faces a restless Congress of People's Deputies this week. That...