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...phrase "one of the most respected managers in his field" informs knowing readers that envy is unnecessary -- the respected manager is on the way out. Before long, there will be hints that his managerial ferocity is insufficient, and perhaps a profile mentioning that he drinks decaffeinated coffee, collects porcelain miniatures or loves San Francisco. This means that in a week he will be "leaving to pursue outside interests." In sports, it is understood that all such rapid declines are drug-related, and sportswriters, the original masters of journalese, are constantly casting about for nonlibelous ways of suggesting that Johnny Jumpshot...
Between the two sections of the ship, the Woods Hole scientists found a large debris field littered with artifacts: a copper kettle polished by sand particles in the deep-sea currents; three of the ship's safes; a porcelain doll's head; a patent-leather shoe. Most of the ship's woodwork had been devoured by marine creatures. Amid the debris were at least four of the Titanic's huge boilers; an unbroken porcelain coffee cup rested on one of them. Says Ballard: "It must have fluttered down like a leaf and settled on the boiler, which had come crashing...
...President Reagan sidestepped questions about recent Soviet criticism of his policies. "We're trying to go forward," he maintained. "We're planning for a summit here." As part of his ritual of leave-taking, Dobrynin presented Reagan with an electric samovar for making tea and nine blue-and-white porcelain figurines. More important, he gave the President a letter from Gorbachev in which the Soviet leader expressed his desire for "concrete agreements" at the next summit and said that he was "still serious about maintaining the dialogue" begun at Geneva...
...becomes instead a lively parade of names and incidents: Muhammad using an early version of the toothbrush; Henry VIII granting a charter for dental surgery to barbers; Paul Revere providing dental fillings before proceeding to larger items of silverware; Charles Lindbergh posing with his grandfather, the inventor of the porcelain jacket crown. Seldom has dentistry been so educational. Never has it been so painless...
...with his pitching hand and, against all odds, finishing the season in stitches. Besides surrendering the first ten days of next year and a fine of $500, Andujar can also expect a bill from the Royals for a battered toilet. It turned out the Cardinals had feet of porcelain...