Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arced through his routine, a break in the clean line of his outstretched body and the title would be lost. Jammed into Fort Worth's convention center, the crowd of 9,200 that had been roaring for its favorites sensed the meaning of the moment and fell silent: never before had an American tested muscle and nerve under such pressure in a world-class gymnastics showdown...
...evidence: "God exists because if you look in the Oxford English Dictionary under the letter G, you will eventually find the word God." The prize for Hindu chutzpah, however, goes to the master who asked an ambassador's wife about the pain in her leg. "It has never given any pain," replied the woman. The unflustered guru's response: "Leg will be better...
...only 201 pages, Mehta embraces an enormous variety of life and death. Her style is light without being flip; her skepticism never descends to cynicism. Given her subject this is a miracle of rational ism and taste...
...career was solved when Barrie discovered a talent for the sentimental stories favored by Victorians. He wrote about his mother, his childhood and, most particularly, about boys. The other problem-women-was more difficult. Sketching out a character, he noted: "Perhaps the curse of his life that he never 'had a woman.' " Whether that curse was autobiographical is moot, but In 1894, when he was 34, James did marry Actress Mary Ansell, the lead of his second play, Walker, London...
Books by the children of famous authors are guaranteed an interested or curious audience. On the debit side, the comparisons that follow are likely to be odious. Susan Cheever, 36, accepts this mixed blessing with considerable panache. She never pretends to write like her old man, John, the sage of Ossining, but she alludes regularly and playfully to his imposing presence. When her heroine, Salley Gardens (nee Potter), gets married, one of the wedding guests is J.C. Salley's father, a Columbia University professor, commits an unacknowledged theft from a Cheever short story when commenting on his older brother...