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...ever wondered what deep thought might pass through the mind of a champion swimmer being honored as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's female athlete of the year, flip to page 220 of Nicola Keegan's novel Swimming (Knopf; 305 pages), on which Philomena (Pip) Ash, fictitious Olympic gold medalist and the novel's heroine, observes that "it will be the only night in my life where I will dine almost entirely surrounded by people taller than myself...
...Pip, who tells her story in the first person, is a difficult infant whose frustrated parents try her out in the water. "I kick; it moves me, and I feel joy," she says, which is the simple secret of her eventual success. Until then, she's stuck in the trappings of a tearjerker minibiopic: in small-town Kansas with a sister dying of Hodgkin's disease, a mother and father in emotional retreat and a Catholic school full of nuns who have no respect for the art of the 200 free...
...items sold on Tuesday include books, drawings and paintings Marceau had collected or created himself. Selling for just over $400 was a French translation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, whose character Pip Marceau, fused with Charlie Chaplin's screen persona, was inspiration for the French mime's Bip. The biggest take of the day was a 1960 portrait in oil of Marceau by André Quellier titled Bip and the Masks, which went for $24,300. (Watch a video on Dickens' world...
Then Warren launched into an explanation of a lot of things Ec concentrators probably understand. FlyBy started paying attention again when she mentioned PPIP (sounds like pee-pip), an acronym she had a bit of trouble pronouncing. Oh, and she couldn't remember what it meant. "It's an investment thing," she says. But then she remembers—"Public-private investment program"—eh, not as exciting as PPIP...
...wellness tip” to “Burn calories skating on the Charles—the ice will hold you! We promise.” 10) Submit a recipe to HUDS detailing the authentic way to make lo- mein out of Adams’s beloved canine, Pip. 11) Sabotage the pot market in Cambridge—without “inspiration,” the Adams House GPA will plummet. 12) Wallpaper Adams with articles from the Salient, and allow a minority uprising to do your work for you. 13) Bribe the MAC construction workers to expand...