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...other hand, he says "The backline is unbeatable, plus we don't rely on one player but have six or seven different sparkplugs: on any given day, any given player will shine...
...many, chief among them Mayor Kevin H. White, the Boston School Committee, and the Boston City Council. White for many years enjoyed a reputation as a benevolent dictator, he continues to be a dictator, but--despite the best efforts of a small army of public relations officials--his shine is increasingly tarnished. Like the council and the school committee, he has put politics far ahead of people, misshaping the priorities of the city and creating a complex mess...
Something in Reagan has always been lucky; it has been part of his attraction, his charm, the nimbus around him. Reagan's luck has a distinctly American shine; his grin proclaims it, the confident expectation of the happy ending. That may be why the nation was drawn to him. Reagan's vehicle on the journey from Dixon, Ill., to Hollywood to the White House ran on persistence and self-knowledge, all right, but it was also propelled by a breezy admixture of the luck that the country was born with...
...however, to a popular imagination fueled on storybooks full of wise kings and gentle queens and tall palaces. One knows Lady Diana read some of those same fairy tales, as certainly as one knows that, when they look to be coming true on July 29, she will continue to shine and star. Always, of course, within the bounds of what is seemly; the consort's luster must not dim the King. Eventually, as Queen, Lady Diana will wear a crown with the 109-carat Kohinoor diamond as its centerpiece. This royal geegaw has been out of circulation for years...
...girlfriends drifted off. Newlove supported himself with typing jobs on Wall Street and low-paid reviewing for a weekly called Idle Hours. He cleaved to his fiction bottle and dreams of success. "On my weekly payday, having written five reviews and collected thirty dollars," he writes, "I'd shine my rotting shoes, press my crotchstinking, shinyassed pants, trim the fray from shirt and jacket, knot up my best greasy tie, pour down a tall wine or two for ballast, then subway uptown to The Forum of the Twelve Caesars or The Four Seasons for one costly drink amid...