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...Harvard-Yale Game was a social event," he says. "When we played in New Haven, you should have seen the special trains lined up at the station. You should have seen the mink coats, the fur coats. Everybody came--from Washington, New York. Oh God, was it a big thing...
Though Yeltsin may personify the post-Soviet era, all the elements of a successful politburo-style road show were in place: the mink-hatted acolytes, the handpicked entourage of veterans, the phalanx of sullen, gray-coated security agents. But as Yeltsin delivered his rambling speech, it was apparent that something had gone awry. One moment he was pledging to save Russia from a new Bolshevik revolution, the next he was suggesting that female employees of a local chocolate factory pair off with single military cadets. When he finally wound down, the lackluster applause demonstrated all too clearly that even...
...There's a lot of new benefits I'd like to discuss." No dice. "I saw her six months later in a cat magazine./ She was the Number One TV cat-food queen/...I could tell it was Puff even though she was wrapped/ In a white mink stole and her teeth were capped." Kids love the jingle-jangle verse, and cats listen thoughtfully...
...stories have roots in rural Ontario, where Munro, the daughter of a mink rancher, grew up. The area seems as familiar as the American Midwest, a flat, unexciting setting where even the bizarre can be made to seem ordinary. A missing girl returns to tell about an encounter with a spaceship. The extraterrestrials are not green and stalky but all-Canadian kids wearing seersucker sunsuits. This, of course, is an unbelievable fiction within a totally credible fiction. Munro demonstrates her mastery of this linkage throughout Open Secrets, where each story is richer and more satisfying than most novels...
...Patsy Mink (D., Hawaii...