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...force. The only problem was that the iron scythe in his hand kept melting into something only slightly less rigid.Frederick coughed, opened his eyes, and rearranged the book on his lap. Roxana blinked up at him with limpid eyes. “It must be hard to be so studious,” she murmured.“You have no idea how hard it is,” said Frederick.Meanwhile, in the drawing room, Felicity was entertaining Prince Filippo, who had become her most frequent visitor. The Prince’s manners perplexed Felicity—no, mostly...
...gaze downcast each evening as she slipped quietly in and out of the Viscountess’ room. She was careful not to look at Viscount Frederick, as he slumped there on the pillows next to his wife. But she couldn’t help but wonder why Frederick, so studious, so sagacious, had chosen to marry a high-strung London beauty like Felicity.To avoid these musings, Roxanna shook her head, setting her buttercup curls a-bouncing. Why worry about anything on such a beautiful day, she told herself. She was in Florence...
...Bell companies.'' So deep are Bell Atlantic's pockets that it announced a $1.04 billion investment in Grupo Iusacell, a Mexican cellular- phone company, the day before unveiling its plans to buy TCI. Yet the deal raised serious doubts about whether the imperious Malone could peacefully coexist with the studious Smith. ''The U.S. Army wasn't big enough for Generals Patton and Bradley,'' notes Ronald Altman, who watches the communications industry for the firm Furman Selz. ''The question is, will Bell Atlantic be big enough for both Smith and Malone?'' Others speculated that Malone would soon be running the company...
...very studious and serious about her work,” said Tiina B. Smith ’83, Manson’s high school friend and freshman year roommate. “She didn’t want to rely on music as a career...
...school seemed like the place to go if you don’t know that,” he continues.He had spent years treating music as a release and consciously shirking the fundamentals. “I wish I were 10 percent as focused and studious with music as I was as a student at the university,” he says.” I have a lot of conditioning against that.”Little by little, discipline has crept into his music. When he decided to pursue music as a career, Redman realized that it was time...