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...entered into affairs cynically to get ahead at the office. Others wanted to experiment sexually with a disposable partner. But most seemed to drift into sexual relationships with a man they had previously pigeonholed as a friend, not a lover. By convincing themselves that the man would somehow remain merely a friend, these women even managed to gloss over sexual intercourse. The first act of sex, Richardson writes, can be rationalized as "a temporary aberration that does not alter the original basis of the relationship...
When New England lost three of the season's first five games, Berry somehow was able to tell the players that they were "right on schedule" without making it sound like an insult. None of them, not even the exquisite 13-year guard John Hannah, had ever before heard a coach say that he enjoyed watching them play. The season's first loss was to the Bears in Chicago, 20-7, when the Patriots' offense alighted no longer in Bear territory than it took Runner Craig James to complete a 90-yd. touchdown play. "We were still looking...
...only letter I could bring myself to write wasn't answered." In 1972 a federal court convicted him of check fraud, and he served 366 days in prison. At Allen-wood, Pa., "not a jail, a summer camp," Sample realized how much he "needed to be connected somehow" with sports. "I never played tennis before I retired, but I played there every day." Now Sample is a tennis linesman at tournaments like the U.S. Open and last week's Masters in New York. As he puts it, "I'm back in the game," this time on the side...
...study every morning parade the armies of the news. A knock on the door, and there stands Heseltine resigning from Mrs. Thatcher's Cabinet, Marcos on the stump, Gaddafi playing cowboy on his tractor, mummied to the nose. Come in, boys. The columnist will make sense of all this somehow. After the reporters and the editors have dumped the facts on the doorstep, the columnist, like a jigsaw addict, scoops up the pieces, studies the angles, mulls, clears his throat and says, with as much self-assurance as possible: This piece goes here, and this one here...
...student body's reaction was predominantly blasé at Brown, a progressive liberal-arts bastion to which high schoolers seek admission more avidly than to virtually any other U.S. college (ten applications for each 1985 enrollment). Senior David Margulius called the situation "bizarre, but somehow not surprising. Brown students are always doing offbeat, experimental things. And they are pretty uninhibited in a lot of ways." Freshman Carol Putsel, 18, was even more matter-of-fact: "Just because it's a college campus doesn't mean that it's free of social problems...