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...especially heartbreaking because one knows how ephemeral ideas and images are, what vast effort it takes to dust off the confusions, tune out the noise, and create those books that, for whatever inadequacies they may display, still set the mind in order for a time, giving it a spine and a binding. There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book-the past and the future entrancing each other. Nor does anyone look quite so attractive as with a book in hand. How many people have fallen in love merely...
...other two-the reasonable Britons-do what they are told. Alistair (Robin Herford), Keith's partner in business, sees everybody's side but his own, while his wife Emma (Lavinia Bertram) wonders how she can transform the toothpick that runs up his back into a spine. The only problem is that Keith, for all his bluster, does not know what he is doing, in business or on the boat, and Alistair, when he eventually takes the helm, runs them onto the mud. Salvation comes in the person of a riverman, Vince (Graeme Eton), who puts the boat back...
...says, "but the feelings can sneak up on you. I'm not particularly knowledgeable about horse racing, but when I watched Secretariat come down the stretch at Belmont Park in 1973 to become the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, even I had chills down my spine...
Ramindar Singh, a Nieman fellow from the Indian Express of New Delhi, said in response to Lewis that some foreign nations perceive Reagan as a war-monger and overtly aggressive. He added, "Reagan and Haig send shivers up our spine with statements about intervening in Saudi Arabia...
Frazier can still shake the building. When he spars with his sons, Marvis and Hector, he looks old and slow. Like a gingerbread man, he has plumped out (to 229 lbs.). But the whomp he fetches the big bag can still tingle a spine. "At all times," he instructs the boys gently, "try to take their heads...