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After the match, the mood among the team was one of enthusiasm and surprise. "It's like something you read in a storybook" Shaw commented a few hours after the victory. Then he paused, and grinning from ear-to-ear, added, "Yeah, but it's real...
...much of a surprise, considering Katherine Ross is in the film) with her daughter. My favorite scene is Hoffman floating at the bottom of his parents' swimming pool in his brand new scuba outfit contemplating the absurdity of life. Or something like that. The ending is straight out of storybook land, but with Simon and Garfunkel singing, Hoffman and Bancroft acting and one of the better comic scripts around. Plastics...
Whether that happens depends largely on the blond, handsome storybook princeling who at week's end became Spain's first King since his grandfather, Alfonso XIII, was deposed in 1931. The ceremony was brief but emotional; the traditional crown and scepter were present on a table in Madrid's packed Cortes, but Juan Carlos was not formally crowned. Dressed in the uniform of a captain-general of the Spanish army−a title held only by Franco and six other men in the country's history−Juan Carlos placed his hand on a Bible...
...side street in a Basque village just south of San Sebastian in Northern Spain. He found himself thrown against the side of a building with a machine-gun pointed at his throat by a member of the civil guard. Prior to this visit, Fascism was, for me, a storybook concept, a photograph of Hitler...
...Kubacki has not been chuckling as much as usual lately. The storybook tale of the junior's unexpected ascent to the top of the Harvard quarterback roster and the nation's offensive standings has taken a tragic twist...