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...Maybe we thought it was going to be easy," she added. "Maybe it was that extra speck of hard work that was missing...
...discover the magic wash of the headlight beams. The birds flit in and out of the barrels of light, like dolphins frisking before a boat's prow. The Land Cruiser jostles, in four-wheel drive, across black volcanic stones toward the camp, the driver steering by the distant light-speck of the cooking fire...
Singh is adamant in his belief that one cannot plan anything in life. He expounds his philosophy, "If you look at the stars, you see a human being is not even a speck of dust in this universe. There are so many forces operating around and upon...
Napoleon's young aide-de-camp, General Gaspard Gourgaud, left a journal describing the Emperor's last years on St. Helena, a speck of British territory in the South Atlantic. Gourgaud's entries, unintentionally hilarious, record the great man's stupendous banality after he lost the thing that made him interesting -- his power. "October 21 (1815). I walk with the Emperor in the garden, and we discuss women. He maintains that a young man should not run after them . . . November 5. The Grand Marshal (Montholon) is angry because the Emperor told him he was nothing but a ninny . . . January...
...careful and, in the case of players elbowed out of the spotlight, like Laraine Newman and Garrett Morris, compassionate. Some of S.N.L.'s creators turn out to be as vivid as the performers themselves. Writer Michael O'Donoghue decorated his office with a picture of Mass Murderer Richard Speck and a pinup of a nude amputee, and once pushed hard for a segment in which Announcer Don Pardo would be fired, on the air, for real...