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Beauty pageants are supposed to be Cinderella tales, where at the grand finale the queen sobs tears of joy while the losers hug her valiantly. Last week the Miss Thailand World contest ended up in a guerrilla-style skirmish that looked more like a nasty palace coup. While TV cameras recorded the scene, Newly Crowned Saengravee Asavarak, 22, was beaming before a Bangkok audience of 2,000 when someone grabbed her tiara and put it on the head of the sobbing first runner-up. Then another hand attempted to pull off her winner's sash. Saengravee was popular with...
...bothers me, he's around to answer the phone. It's really nice. There's a lot of affection, purely non-sexual. Just having a male give you a hug every now and then is great," says Donna...
Snuggled in there on the racks among HUMOROUS NEPHEW and FOREIGN BIRTHDAY are cards with messages such as "The warmth of your hug lingers . . ." and "In this world it's very scary to be open and vulnerable . . ." and "Finally, I have a friend I can trust . . . completely!" So far the genre has no name -- call it the emotionally expressive component of the nonoccasion card market. But under such brand names as Soft Sentiments and Personal Touch, cards retailing love, heartache and other real-life, prepackaged emotions are among the hottest products in the industry. "The style today is openness...
...turn-offs. Why is it so hard for many of us to break from the bondage of negativism? I believe it was another man named Leo--Leo Tolstoy--who named one of his fine books War and Peace. He was saying to us, "Grab life by the throat and hug it." If he wasn't saying this, who cares? We all make mistakes. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Take me, for instance. Sometimes a tiny voice tells me, "Leo, you are creating soft-centered, runny confections again." But then I think: There's new stuff here. There...
Smiling and affable, Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in East Germany last week. Emerging from his Aeroflot IL-62 jet, the Soviet leader, followed by his wife Raisa, flashed his friendliest grin as he greeted East German Party Chief Erich Honecker with a hug and kisses on both cheeks. Gorbachev had come to East Berlin for the East German Communist Party Congress...