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Then, only days later, the Minutemen's second string signalcaller went down with a jammed thumb. He will miss about a month...
Some royal-watchers have argued that such achange is necessary to insure that the family atBuckingham Palace remains popular with the Britishsubjects. At a time when most of the Britishpopulation is working class, the royal familystands out as a sore thumb. Yet, the British lovethe royal family, avidly following their everymove. Charles may well be the most popular royalfigure because of his expertise in dealing withthe public and the press...
...qualifies? In most cases, heredity and genealogy are of little help, Kennedys and Rockefellers excepted. So a few rules of thumb suggest themselves. A seat-for-life for an Oscar, two PEOPLE magazine covers or 100 minutes (lifetime) spent with Merv Griffin. Lesser folk, with only a guest appearance or two on Miami Vice, may serve on committees...
Once off the pedestal, Reynolds could create memorable types. Nowhere in English art is there a sweeter, tougher demimondaine than his Mrs. Abington, reflectively sucking her thumb whilst sizing up the audience with a level look annealed by years of prostitution before her stardom as a comic actress. And it would be difficult to imagine a more sympathic portrait of a minor writer than his study of Giuseppe Baretti, shortsightedly scrutinizing a book inches from his eye with the greed of a man devouring an orange. In Reynolds' intimate portraits, the aura of classical make-believe becomes an ironical virtue...
...miles east of Bordeaux that is co-owned by Jean-Pierre Moueix and Lily Lacoste-Loubat. The operation is run by Moueix's son Christian, an art collector and jogger who attributes Petrus' quality to the chateau's mature, 40-year-old vines and to his own green thumb. He personally oversees the cultivation of the vines and claims to have given each one individual attention. Says he: "I call them people. I have seen each of them." Every fall, when the grapes reach just the right degree of ripeness, 180 workers pick them swiftly over a two-day period...