Word: hugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
When the tally was in, O'Connor received a congratulatory hug from fellow Arizonan Barry Goldwater and descended the Capitol steps. Accompanied by Goldwater, Vice President George Bush and other supporters, she gazed at the imposing marble facade of the Supreme Court across the way and said earnestly: "My hope is that ten years from now, after I've been across the street and worked for a while, they'll feel glad that they gave me this wonderful vote...
Procrastination and I even developed a new game to make the flirting easier. We called it "Resolutions." It's quite simple. I just spend hours vowing to desert Procrastination. But during the whole game. I hug her very, very tightly...
...nicer guy and a tougher fighter than people know." Perhaps even Leonard does not know. But at the postfight press conference, he rather brusquely pushed aside the ice pack his wife was holding to the back of his neck-so that he could hug Ray Jr., his seven-year-old son. -By B.J. Phillips/Las Vegas