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...Kevin has really begun to find his stroke,” Sullivan said. “He’s playing much better ball...
...rich hill-tribe culture. But there's another ubiquitous sight along the north's twisting mountain roads: the smoke-belching, gear-grinding, Eastern bloc motorcycle throwback that Vietnamese call con trau gia (the old buffalo). First imported from the Soviet Union in the 1960s, the Minsk's two-stroke engine and body have hardly changed over the years. Northern Vietnam has undeniably become Minsk country, and the old buffalo are used for everything, from personal transportation to hauling pigs, cows and chickens to hill-tribe markets...
...later duels might lack the buoyant grandeur of Yuen Wo-ping's action scenes in Crouching Tiger, but they have a stateliness that suits the gravity of the plot. These are working warriors with a deadly goal. Several of them are also artists and calligraphers. They believe that every stroke of the pen or the blade must be justified. They don't fight to dazzle; they fight to kill...
DIED. KIM GALLAGHER, 38, who bested chronic illness to win two Olympic medals in the 800-m race; of a stroke, after battling cancer of the stomach and colon; in Philadelphia. She underwent surgery for ovarian cysts six months before her silver-medal win in Los Angeles in 1984. Her 1988 time in Seoul is still the third fastest by an American woman in that race...
...Texas to shoot. Before I myself realized that it was happening, my wife accused me of falling in love with 20-year-old actress Cybill Shepherd. Polly was right. As I was swept into an affair with Cybill, my mother called to tell me my father had had a stroke and was in a coma...