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...Seldom had Pro Golfer Jerry Pate's follow-through seemed more fluid. Of course, the former U.S. Open winner had had a bit of practice. After winning the Memphis Classic a year ago, he stunned spectators and a national television audience by diving joyously into a water hazard. After winning the $90,000 first-place prize at the Tournament Players Championship in Ponte Vedra, Fla., Pate, 28, plotted to make an even bigger splash. "Come here, I want you to see something," said Pate to P.G.A. Tour Commissioner Deane Beman, 43, leading him to the edge of the water...
...producers are seldom content to let hell enough alone. Vocal references to rape are accompanied by screams and wails; at the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony-a wartime symbol for victory-the screen fills with hundreds of Morse code Vs, dots and dashes rendered in red, white and blue. As Taylor recites Pavel Friedman's famous ghetto poem, The Butterfly, an animated sun fills a small room, and a Disneyesque creature flaps through, cheapening a transcendent human document...
Maldonado does this simply by campaigning openly and by indicting government corruption and repression. He speaks with the slow patience of a parish priest, seldom raising his voice. "To do so only frightens people," he says. "We are the only group who can bring peace to Guatemala, because we have no hate for anyone. We feel we are in good hands when we are with the people...
...FASHION SELDOM admits of any studied explanation. Wavelike, trends rise, crest, fall and rise again seemingly without reason. Even fashionmongers, the people who devote themselves to charting these periodic cycles, make no pretense of perceiving a rational causality in it. Rather, they channel their energies into sniffing out the true trend-setter-or-reviver from among the herd of recherche hangers-on who persist in feeding off the piled carcasses of defunct trends...
...these times of relative peace and harmony among Harvard students and faculty, one seldom feels the sort of tension wrought on the Yard by unruly classes of the past...