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Kelly plasters gardenias on his gowns, makes hats in the form of watermelon slices and flaunts pink flounces: inspiration that comes, he says, from the full-figured ladies parading to Vicksburg's Baptist church on Sundays. Ever since an aunt taught him to sew, Kelly has known what he wanted to be. Nonetheless, at Jackson State University, then an all-black school, he went through a "militant stage." His best friend hanged himself in jail. "I remember singing 'Burn, baby, burn,' and knowing what it meant," Kelly says. And there was the teacher, Michael Thomas recalled, who "told...
When the daily chores are done, the prisoners attend political-education classes or learn to knit and sew. Whenever possible, they smuggle the goods to the outside for sale, donating the profits to the Senderista cause. Several times a week around noon, the 63 Senderista women and 120 men in a nearby cellblock break for an "agitation," in which they rattle the bars and hurl earsplitting insults at their guards. For recreation, there is volleyball in a pavilion's patio, under red-painted panels that pay homage to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Close to the top of the walls...
...effortlessly around the rink. Twinned by Moscow's Central Army Sports Club six years ago, neither has ever had another partner. Yet they spend little time together off the ice. Grinkov is 21, and his tastes run to books and ice hockey, while Gordeeva likes to collect toys, sew and surprise her teammates with batches of home-baked cookies. "We just practice together," says Grinkov. Romantics can take heart that perhaps it is just the age difference. Gordeeva is, after all, only 16. With her wide-eyed fawn's gaze, she is still a giggly high school girl, while Grinkov...
...there's one thing you can say about Clemson, it's that the Tigers have school spirit. The Harvard soccer players were given Tiger memorabilia when they checked in, complete with a flourescent orange pom-poms and their own sew-on paw patches...
...Meadowlands. A wounded Korean War vet, he collects $333 a month veteran's compensation, and that, along with $1,200 he and Nora make each year selling their crafts, is enough to buy the various items -- gas, Postum, margarine -- that they can't grow in their garden, hunt, sew, fish for, trade for or find in the Taos County dump...