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...scores, there were also temperamental difference. Fitzgibbons claimed to be "psyched out" by the high scoring of "S." Fitzgibbons has an affinity for shooting "low numbers," subscribing to the philosophy of the Scottish prof of old who gritted his teeth and said: "I 'ate heights." The plight of "S" is just as pitiful, for he faced an unequal task in competing with Fitzgibbons. He was not "playing a proud game," as caddies are wont to say. Nor is Fitzgibbons always the most encouraging of playing partners. His own words attest to his highstrung nature: "I can be a pretty intense...
...when she alternately begs him to "think of me sometimes" and warns him to "think of me sometimes" and warns him to "advance at your peril," are especially fine. But Gustafson's talents are most in evidence when she launches into song. Her strong, pure soprano elevates Patience's plight to operatic heights, her superb diction rarely obscuring Gilbert's lyrics...
...herself alienated from the work she wanted to do, she feared that misconceptions about her personal history were still unresolved. With no one to defend her (apparently not even Mao), she made another special appearance before the Party organization just to impress upon these ostensibly fair-minded men her plight in Shanghai...
Kicking and Wiggling. Fuisz focuses on the plight of three would-be mothers and the heroic efforts of doctors to save their endangered babies. Interspersed in their stories are sequences tracing the baby's development from the moment of its creation and the division of its first few cells through its amazingly rapid growth into a full fetus and finally to its emergence from the womb. Even in the earliest stages of pregnancy, the embryo is amazingly babylike. By the ninth week the fetus is kicking and wiggling, though it is so small-only a few inches long-that...
...true dimension of Orland's plight becomes apparent in a walk through the fields with burly, gray-haired Robert McCombs. His quarter-mile-long slough for storage is empty. So is his well. His oats are stunted like a day's growth of beard on the dry fields. He sold off calving cows earlier this year because he could not water them. Paul Pehrson's 20 acres of orange trees are literally dying before his eyes. "It would take me ten to 15 years to get started again," he says. "I can't face starting...