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Anne Nagel seems determined to greet every last one of her guests personally. "I'm so happy to see you! I'm so glad you could make it," she says, flashing her infectious smile over and over. Some five dozen family members--brothers, sisters, children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren--have crowded into Maguire's, an old-fashioned wood-paneled Irish bar and restaurant in the Bayside section of Queens, N.Y., festooned on this chilly, bright November Saturday with pink and purple balloons for her 90th-birthday party...
...lies behind them is no less mysterious. She met Ted Hughes at a party at Cambridge University in 1956. He was 25 and craggily handsome. She was 23, bright, pretty and vivacious--the word is hard to avoid with Plath. Both were aspiring poets. But Plath's gleaming American smile hid dark, ravenous appetites--for food, for fame, for love, for sex. It also hid gulfs of despair; three years earlier, she had attempted suicide...
...down the aisle of the Senate Chamber. They saw a still face with big dark eyes. They saw a slim, straight figure in a black Chinese gown, with here a tiny splash of jade, there a black sequin's understated sparkle. Madame Chiang stepped to the rostrum ... shot a smile at the Senators, and then, after apologizing for not having a set speech, knocked their silvery blocks off ... When she finished, tough guys were melted. 'Goddam it,' said one grizzled Congressman ... Much-moved listeners probably did not stop to analyze what had pulled at their hearts...
...plants tiptoes on the floor and begins the story of his revolutionary days. It's a little-known epic of how a humble teacher endured oppression, rose to lead his island people against a tyrant and finally triumphed, uniting the palm-lined Maldives. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom wears a saintly smile as he stresses that he "did not seek" greatness but rather "a lot of people wanted me to be President... so I accepted." As the man who is now Asia's longest-serving elected leader begins his sixth five-year term, he relates how under his guidance Maldivians realized...
...Better him in front than me,” Kolarik said with a smile...