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...help by acting normal. At the moment, a dozen of them are circulating around the house. They stump in and out of the meeting lugging bottles of apple juice, flinging toys, pulling hair. Amid the routine toddler pandemonium, Helen is talking about the 21-month-old child on her lap. "All of us have a season," she says. "With Denise, we know we'll only have a season. But we make the most of what we have today. You just let the child blossom into your life. Let the joy come out." The doctors said Denise would die of AIDS...
...Pierpoint of CBS stood up, and our eyes met for ever so tiny an instant. We knew but did not want to believe. "What was that?" he asked. Doug Kiker, now of NBC, then a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, was typing on his lap. He paused. Kennedy's limousine had turned the corner beneath a boxy, ugly building and sunk out of sight. The pigeons -- the famous pigeons of death -- were rising and swooping under the trees...
...family train. Across the aisle three children were playing Musical Laps on various amply lapped mother-like figures who chatted away, absentmindedly patting the playing children. Across from them were two fifteen-year-old skateboard kids, whose disdainful sneers showed how much they secretly missed playing on Mommy's lap. A skull-painted board with wheels is a lousy substitute...
...pair then put a bag filled with toilet paper on the statue's lap and draped the statue with the remaining rolls, he said...
...hold your breath wondering if Gino can assimilate himself into this world. Sure, at first he is so unaccustomed to life in the lap of luxury that the uses the toilet in his suite and then puts the paper strip back on. But like Peter Sellers' Chance the Gardener in Being There, Gino coasts like a charmed figure, convincing everyone through his affable personality and his homespun platitudes that he is the genuine article...