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...prepared typescript. But then, eager to give his measured words emphasis, he starts his right hand stirring the air in tight counterclockwise loops. And before long, like one of his new turbocharged cars, he revs up and zooms off, quoting himself, zigzagging between '60s idiom ("flip out," "bummer") and mild profanity, tossing away irreverent asides like empty beer cans. Hyperbole comes naturally, and repeatedly: to the analysts in Detroit, he said Chrysler's admittedly successful mini-van is "the hottest new product . . . in your lifetimes." Says Douglas Fraser: "I'm a hip shooter. I'll admit...
...complicated public image of Bernhard Goetz, New York City's "subway vigilante," seems to be shifting. The initial perception of him as a mild-mannered Clark Kent who changed into an intrepid punk stopper was certified last January when a grand jury refused to indict the weedy, self- employed engineer for attempted murder. But lately Goetz's righteous aura has been smudged by new revelations, principally that he admitted firing a bullet into one of his four victims with the words "You don't look so bad. Here's another...
...nostalgia for sounds and tastes is palpable. "The mild spring evening air no longer swims with the sweet, full chime of the city's 40 times 40 churches, and waffles are no longer sold, as they were in our childhood, on every boulevard and each street square." The memory sends Alexander into a lyrical flight: "Wonderfully smelling, thin, fresh waffles, which were twisted, still hot, into cornets and crammed with cream--the very image of waves, heaving hump-backed and white-crested as they reach the shore, to topple, curl and close like the wave of Hokusai...
...school and you're a girl, College Week--an annual pilgrimage of sun-starved New England undergraduates to a Mecca for Anglophilic vacationers--presents unprecedented opportunities for deviant behavior, including the ever-popular boozin,' cruisin,' and woosin.' So it's not all that surprising that placing 10 less-than-mild-mannered 17 year-old girls in this resort haven with minimal supervision during Spring recess would satisfy an Irwin Allen formula for disaster...
Haydon meanwhile was "recovering very nicely," according to DeVries, though suffering from a mild kidney problem and continued weakness from loss of weight. Without the implant, "he wouldn't be here today," said Juanita Haydon. "Every day is precious...