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With this rude awakening, the Government bureaucracy came to be seen as inflated and wasteful. The Viet Nam War made the U.S. seem weak abroad. Then Watergate soiled the presidency. The public began to lose faith in Government-and in the Democrats' activism...
...Winged Foot last week was only remarkable, the towel waving memorable. Fuzzy Zoeller signaled mock surrender to Greg Norman at the fieriest moment of a U.S. Open Sunday, and when the heat was off in their 18-hole playoff the following day, Norman waved back. Golf may be "a rude game," as Zoeller says, but golfers almost unfailingly display a grace under pressure that used to be the definition of heroism. From Yankee Stadium to Wimbledon, the phrase has pretty much abandoned sport...
...bears, a compound of tormented memory and suffering intelligence. There is in his presence a nobility that elicits compassion along with admiration for the actor's work. Jacqueine Bisset and Anthony Andrews tread similarly delicate lines as Yvonne and Hugh, trying to cling to their dreams despite the rude, awakening noises of Geoffrey's self-destruction. With Finney, they slowly draw the viewer across time and distance into an unlikely involvement with highly unlikely people. Some of the rich allusiveness of Lowry's prose may lave been lost in the process, but much has been gained...
...orchid corsage the size of a catcher's mitt, the stooped honoree attended the whole symposium, a taxing thing when you consider the hard slogging certain scholars can subject an audience to. "I just feel like, well, it's all for me, and it would be rude to miss one of the speakers," she said early on. "I can just hear my mother saying, 'Girl, you're getting a little too much attention,' " she said toward...
...minimize such shocks of the new, the refreshment menu at most design sales offices goes easy on the alcohol. Nevertheless, the whole buying process remains a heady, intriguing, enervating and slightly intoxicating business. It can get all tangled up between low math, high fashion and rude stereotyping that becomes a way to identify-indeed, codify-the store's clientele. Bloomingdale's, launching a new addition in southwest Miami this August, is keeping its collective eye on the demographics. "We realize there is a very large Spanish-speaking population, from either Cuba or South American countries," says Bloomingdale...