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...this go-round, the atmosphere was eminently more serene. A bright Bavarian sun shone down as the Greek team, in accordance with tradition, led the march around the red and green arena that will hold the track and field events. The West German crowd applauded handsomely (even for the East Germans) as each nation trooped its colors to dance-band music, which included When the Saints Go Marching In for the U.S. and Song for Natasha, in salute to the Soviet Union. The U.S. contingent was led by Discus Thrower Olga Connolly, 39, the mother of four, who defected from...
...parties and story conferences, Allen tossed off these lunatic lines in a tone that seemed to blush for its presumption. Only a polished comic, he thought, could do them proper injustice. So Allen's managers, Jack Rollins and Charlie Joffe, decided to buff him until he shone. After all, 15% of a writer's salary barely pays the office rent. But 15% of a star...
...Cicero. What was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare. Because he had to play to the galleries, his plays were par for the coarse, brimming with such verbal pratfalls as "Discharge yourself of our company, Pistol." But Shakespeare could also buff the pun until it shone like art. Says the bleeding Mercutio: "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man." "You see how this world goes," Lear says to the blind Gloucester. "I see it feelingly," Gloucester replies...
...moon shone that Saturday night in March 1960 in St. Martin, a picturesque dot of a town on the coast of Jersey, largest of the bucolic Channel Islands. As the village slept, a silent intruder broke into a small cottage, abducted a 14-year-old girl from her ground-floor bedroom and led her to a nearby field, where he raped her and nearly strangled her by twisting a rope around her neck...
...mythology of most ancient people and has awed man since the beginning of human experience. The Greeks, who personified the moon in the form of the goddess Selene, were the first to study the lunar disk scientifically. They realized that their goddess was not luminous herself but shone only in the reflected light of the sun. They determined that the moon had mountains and valleys and that it always kept the same face turned toward earth. By the 3rd century B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristarchus and others had used geometry to make surprisingly accurate estimates of the moon's size...