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...book. She abandons the contrived dramaticism of the earlier chapters; here she calmly tells us what happened and reconstructs what must have been in Charles's mind. From his point of view, this conversion was the most important decision of Charles II's life. It provides a splendid end to Fraser's not quite so splendid biography...
...parking lot afterwards, the Crimson awarded Stone with a case of Molson beer in recognition of her splendid Howe Cup performance, in which she went undefeated and dropped the fewer points than any other team member...
...felt easier as he got set for the 500 meters in Lake Placid, and found he was in one of those splendid matchups that rarely occur in a sport in which the race is not against another but against the clock. The pairings for speed skating are a matter of pure chance. For the 500 meters last week, the draw for the inner lane was the Soviets' Kulikov, the current world record holder in the event and the gold medal winner in 1976. For the outer lane: Eric Heiden...
...case, Ford will not let talk of an eventual candidacy die. Trim, tan and in splendid spirits, he is easily the most active non-candidate around, averaging 18 days of travel a month and earning about $500,000 a year on the rubber-chicken circuit. Last week was typical. He flew from his $692,000 home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., to Salt Lake City for a dinner speech to Utah Republicans, then went the next day to Las Vegas for a lunchtime address to the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association. That afternoon the ex-President, wearing light blue paisley...
...surface with emphatic silhouetted forms, stopping just short of congestion, is the animating principle of O'Donnell's work: he is a trader in visual surprises who can set his big, fractured geometrical forms, the loops and slices and incomplete circles of color, moving with splendid élan. A work like Palaestra, 1979, shows his peculiar talent for keeping up a lively debate between edge and surface in the reactions between the rhythmical curves of the design and the slices made into the canvas by its wooden framing battens. Squiggling, spinning, breaking off into ribbons and trellis-like...