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...read papers and documents to a blind city official, did some filing and phone answering and worked in the parking-ticket division. The work made her aware that she could handle a regular job if only someone would hire her. Says she: "Without a job, you get into a rut you wouldn't believe. I've been turned down a lot, but I'm not giving...
...After five straight you can get into a rut and forget what winning feels like," commented Lau. "You begin to expect it. Last year, the team accepted losing very well...
...There isn't any villain here," says an authoritative Post insider. "Don isn't the villain. Ben didn't get Phil. Meg didn't get Phil." Adds a Post editorial writer: "He was just in a rut. The writers thought he had grown stale. It was a question of getting more zip into things...
...with men and I know those relationships won't always be controllable. But in the overall plan of my life I budget for that." As a novelist, Hermitage is intrigued by her economics of the heart. As a man, he is smitten with a case of middle-age rut: He settles into a daily routine: a soul-searching chat with the dying mother, a brisk workout in bed with the daughter, and then back to the writing table and the new Hermitage novel...
...past five years, while Brandt's reputation abroad remained untarnished, the radiance of his image has dimmed in West Germany. It faded even further last week with the announcement that Brandt, 65, and his Norwegian-born second wife, Rut, 58, were "taking legal steps to dissolve their marriage by mutual consent." Straitlaced Germans were saddened by the breakup of Brandt's 30-year marriage, but not terribly surprised. Rut had stood at her husband's side through a host of personal and political crises, including several of his transient flings with other women. In an interview last...