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...fishermen by the thousands." It's got mean little teeth, like a barracuda - or, to take some of the drama out of it, like a Jack Russell terrier. Bring a big one into the boat and you feel as if you have landed an alligator with a good tailor...
...locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when the older Guinness sat, purring and omniscient, for the role of George Smiley in the two '80s mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Perhaps, in the sum of these men, we caught a profile of the composite Guinness character: he defined what it meant, at the sunset of the empire, to be an Englishman...
...Antonio Samaranch has exhibited a pronounced ambivalence about drug use, and certainly his stance has allowed a number of golden boys and girls to keep their images shiny while doping. Careful athletes can easily beat the system that is in place to catch drug abusers. Unscrupulous sports federations can tailor testing schedules and tip off their constituents. Steroid creams can be flushed from the system in 24 to 48 hours. And for some of the most commonly used enhancers, such as erythropoietin (EPO), there are still no institutionalized tests. It is said that EPO, which increases stamina by boosting...
...gemstone 40. He's signed on with the ad agency that helped elect Ventura 42. Prefix meaning personal 44. Bush got heckled by death-penalty opponents at its convention 48. Dow Jones fig. 50. City that's offering White Bikes 53. Dickensian epithet 54. The National Geographic Society will tailor these to individual needs 55. Subject of a conference in Durban, South Africa 56. Social worker? 57. Scottish hillside 58. U.S.N.A. grad...
...unrippable paper that can be folded into envelopes, a dress designed like a kite that can actually fly and a coffee table of malleable wood that swirls into a skirt. What saves his fanciful designs from unraveling into mere novelty is the fact that Chalayan, 29, an exquisite tailor, uses the show pieces to inspire his eminently more wearable clothes. "These pieces might not sell," he says, "but they express the concept behind each collection." The result is feminine clothes that are spare, clean and architecturally constructed to create volume without frills...