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...reminded her that a year ago to the day we had run down to MIT together and encountered an exhausted, but elated finished wrapped in a protective silver sheet, and that we had decided after talking to him that we would run this year...
Piano lessons are compulsory. Sex education is an accelerated course in child abuse: a newly arrived immigrant cousin spends himself on Kate's leg; an avuncular friend of her family's gropes her at the movies, and a barber's free hand wanders under the sheet. Years later, Mamma tells her daughter that she had 13 abortions. It was not a neighborhood record...
When junior shortstop Brad Bauer stepped up to the plate, two or three took out their stopwatches to time his run down to first. After rightfielder Donny Allard knocked a home run over the leftfield fence, one glanced at a numerical evaluation sheet, then muttered "I was waiting for him to do that...
...design clothes that can be produced at a certain cost, that can be sold and can be worn. The beginning of a new collection is a drama. But eventually, without being theatrical, without drinking or smoking or listening to background music, I just begin to design on a sheet of white paper...
...generally inspires much beyond a nod, a wink and a yawn. But when Manufacturers Hanover Corp., the fourth largest financial services organization in the nation, issued its 1981 annual report two weeks ago, the document contained a surprising dividend. Preceding the usual page after page of income and balance-sheet statistics was a sprawling, sunnily optimistic tour d'horizon of America itself, and the author was none other than Magazine Journalist and Novelist E.J. Kahn Jr., 65, a highly regarded staff writer at The New Yorker since 1937. The project, for which Kahn was commissioned by Manufacturers Hanover Chairman...