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...beside the runway. Some of the crates had already been opened, exposed to the weather and carefully plucked over like boxes of fruit. Because they feared searches at roadblocks and airport customs, the refugees carried with them only the barest of personal belongings, often chosen in haste: a tennis racket, tape recorder, kitchen clock or guitar. Sakaria Rajendra, a student, wore 20 elephant-hair bracelets to give to people in England. One family, luckier than most, smuggled out a diamond valued...
...partisan fans shouted "Hai, Ili-uta!" ("Go, little Hie!"). Nastase, an army lieutenant and the closest thing Rumania has to a matinee idol, ran the gamut of his storied antics. He danced back and forth while waiting for a serve, interrupted play to swat at a fly with his racket, and soccer-kicked a ball to the sidelines. The crowd lapped it up, but Smith refused to be shaken. Leading 10-9 in the first set, he responded to a Nastase charge at the net with a soft lob that landed on the baseline to give the American...
...vehicles moving up to 35 m.p.h., the racket of engine, muffler and tires must not exceed 86 db in trucks, 82 db in motorcycles and 76 db in cars...
MARJOE IS AN UNDENIABLY slick and engrossing film unfortunately, it is a movie that focuses on the wrong subject. An expose of the "big time" evangelical preaching racket, this documentary has been conceived as a public act of repentance for former revivalist Marjoe Gortner. It serves almost entirely as a showcase for its egotistical protagonist and never confronts a more important topic--the lives and motivations of the people caught up in his religious revivals. As a result the audience is subjected to a frustratingly inarticulate exercise which is nevertheless provocative and revealing in spite of itself...
Everyone who plays against Nastase usually is. Early in the match, Ilie began to get on Ashe's nerves by protesting the linesmen's eyesight and judgment with baroque Balkan-and some internationally known-gestures. Irked by a footfault call, he dropped his racket in disbelief. Later, convinced that a service linesman had robbed him on an out call, Nastase threw a towel toward the official and whacked a ball at him. Such unseemly pique drew boos from the crowd and a rebuke from Ashe, who complained to the umpire...