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...intelligence of a Jane Fonda, who showed in her eyes that she half-knew she was exploiting and being exploited, and kept flashing a curious dignity above the demeaning roles. But Welch was in on the cheat. Predatory, she'd wriggle up out of the water, reptilian and sleek, looking like she'd just been stamped out by a plastiglob toy set to jiggle from the rearview mirror. She seemed almost threatening, as though her super-tapered body slimmed down to huge hidden webbed fins at the extremities. In Musketeers she gets to exude a natural clumsiness--she steps into...
...outset, the negotiations appeared to justify Kissinger's optimism and confidence. Since this was the Secretary's sixth trip to Moscow in two years, the Russians were sure-handed in orchestrating what they now call Operatsia Kissingera. Sleek convoys of Zil and Chaika limousines flowed between the Secretary's guesthouse in the Lenin Hills and the Kremlin's Spassky Gate. Tables groaned under caviar, salmon, sturgeon, steak, beef Stroganoff, fruits and Georgian wines. There was even a special celebration for Kissinger's daughter Elizabeth, who was traveling with her father and who turned...
Though money is no problem for Kalmbach, social prestige is. "Nixon's man" had risen with sleek assurance in the moneyed society of Newport Beach, just an hour's drive by Cadillac south of Los Angeles. He was a power in the Lincoln Club of Orange County, an organization of wealthy and conservative G.O.P. contributors. He hobnobbed with the likes of John ("Duke") Wayne and Donald Nixon, the President's brother, both neighbors in Newport...
...spar. Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...
...sleek John Hartnett, a 'Nova senior with Olympic aspirations, smashed the old IC4A two mile record with a breakneck 8:33 clocking. The soft-spoken Irishman then came back and anchored the Wildcat distance medley relay team that bettered the meet record with a time...