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...political circles, Chirac is better known for his combative nature and his fierce ambition to become President. The new Premier's advisers softened his image during the recent campaign by dressing him in muted tweeds and exchanging his severe black-framed eyeglasses for lighter tortoiseshells. Still, the real Chirac may prove irrepressible. Says Charles Pasqua, the new Interior Minister: "Chirac is a fighter, given to committing himself...
...pairs of shoes, it was not because (as some candle-snuffing moralists might think) she should be expected to wear them all, and must be judged a wastrel if she did not, but because the 2,700 pairs gave her options. Her step no doubt grew lighter in the knowledge of such freedom. Did she display her shoes the way that Jay Gatsby reveled in his wonderful shirts...
...across the keys, and the words arrayed themselves on a magic screen before him. Here was a miracle that imitated the very motions of his brain, that teleported paragraphs here and there--no, there!--as quickly as a mind flicking through alternatives. Prose with the speed of light, and lighter than air! Toad could lift 10 lbs. of verbiage, at a whim, from his first page and transport it to the last, and then (hmmm), back again...
...while the Eliot House resident found the Cambridge weather harsher than he was accustomed to, he found the training regime lighter. Back Down Under, Ford's daily practice consisted of swimming 18,000 to 20,000 meters in a 50-meter pool...
Safman, accepted to the College in December, developed the experiment when she was a 14-year-old junior high school student. The project, which took off with the shuttle after a record seven aborted take-offs, involved injecting air bubbles into metal to make it structurally lighter in space...