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...volume up. Chords that were farfetched or tries-counting become velvety, even lash, and, if you hear the song more than once, you can bury yourself in it as you munch your french fries. You might believe whatever the song tells you-as you swim in the music and hug the jukebox...
...John Thompson, 6-ft. 5-in. Fred Brown seemed unimaginably little, childlike and blameless. For a moment, so did college basketball, which is saying something. These days, a coach or recruiter is considered honest if he has never stolen a stove that's still hot. Then, in one hug last week, there was redemption. The losing coach, Georgetown's mountainous Thompson, wrapped his arms nearly twice around Brown, the Georgetown player who had just thrown a pass and the championship away. As if Brown were on a ledge, Thompson held him tenderly beside the court, while joyful North...
...than any other active coach, but in six previous Final Fours had neglected to win the championship. So no body begrudged him his moment above the basket after 20 years. Or one all-out "hugger" - "that's when you run into the dressing room afterward," he explained, "and hug everybody." To Smith, "every body" naturally included Thompson. The warmth between them traces to when Thompson was the high school coach and guardian of a player recruited by Caroli na. Smith's concern for the boy, who never achieved much as a player, touched Thompson. Later, when Smith coached...
...point, the tiny voice of Simon Edwin, 7, caught her ear. "My dad says give us a kiss," said Simon. "Well then," Diana replied, bending forward, "you had better let me have one." Further on, the princess spotted Joanne Edwards, 8, crippled by spina bifida. "Do you want a hug?" she asked the young girl. Whispered Joanne: "Oh yes, please." Diana lifted her out of her wheelchair and kissed her softly...
Mstislav Rostropovich was there, wrapping his cello in a warm Russian bear hug as he dashed off two movements of a Haydn concerto. Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern were on hand too, the picture of collegial conviviality in a Vivaldi double concerto. Soprano Leontyne Price, the diva di tutte le dive, sang arias by Verdi, Richard Strauss and Puccini with resplendent warmth and freshness. And there was Pianist Rudolf Serkin, happily singing along as he performed in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy. At the end, Isaac Stern struck up Happy Birthday, and 2,600 fashionably dressed folk in Symphony...