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Sophomore Jack Polsky, another player Segal cited as progressing, bounced back from a tough first game to defeat Tim Slough...
...people are able to cling to prejudice more easily in the abstract. With a real live female candidate stumping the country and getting incessant public attention between now and November, one who is unafraid of seeming both feminine and strong, a lot of half-baked, half-conscious bias should slough away. "Kennedy proved that Catholics had finally arrived in American society, that they could win any office, run any corporation, achieve any social position," says Stuart Eizenstat, a Presidential Adviser in the Carter Administration. "This shows that women are now full-fledged and equal members of society, that women...
Close). Soon Henry and Annie have set up house together, leaving Charlotte in silence and Max in a slough of self-pity Annie is so happy that she cannot feel guilty about Max ("His misery just seem . . .not in very good taste"), and Henry is a giddy schoolboy. "I love love," he exults "I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love...
...nosed boy called Clouk. "When I gave birth to this beautiful young man," the author later recalled, "he was ugly, something of a runt, and sickly, suffering from swollen adenoids." He bored her. As a result, "Clouk awoke from a few months' sleep, cast off his pale little slough like a molting snake, emerged gleaming, devilish, unrecognizable." The creature that resulted from this metamorphosis was soon to make himself at home in the bed of another of Colette's celebrated characters, Léa, the retired courtesan. Upon reading the final version of Chéri, Andr...
...upscale rival. The only escape route for Stefan Djordjevic (Cruise) is a college sports scholarship, and his prospects look grim: the coach (Craig T. Nelson) thinks Stef has a "bad attitude." He needs Ihe love of his good woman Lisa (Lea Thompson) lo keep him from falling into the slough of his family's steelworker tradition...