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...just gracefully proposed a toast to "the health and success of President-elect José LÓpez Portillo." The guests at the elegant reception given by the Secretary and his wife Nancy in Mexico City last week raised their glasses, then waited expectantly to see how the trim, attractive woman in the turquoise evening gown would handle herself. Taking the microphone, Rosalynn Carter began to speak-and the assembly and the evening were hers...
...That's my screwdriver," he said. "Don't trim my screwdriver too short." He used his thumbnail to flick pages in his documents, and to tighten loose screws or make adjustments in his movie sound equipment or other appliances...
...under his bed for midnight snacks-and watched his blood pressure soar. "I was ready for the basket," says Hillier, who had tried every imaginable weight reduction gimmick, including amphetamines, without success. That was only five months ago. Now the 6 ft. 4 in. Hillier is down to a trim 200 lbs., feels so good he wants to start skiing and, patting his new flat stomach, boasts: "I have the libido of a teen-ager...
...abandon the facile descriptions and labels for these minority students and ask, "Who are they really?" If we trim down that generality and ask, "Who are these students?" then we may get somewhere. Let us specify at once what they are not. They are not those students whose race, culture, value systems, etc. do figure predominantly in the much discussed "sample." Many of them, though not all, line up along the top edges of the curves used to design national standardized tests. We often hear the claim that they are not numerous enough to constitute a control group, and thus...
Crooked Seams. After writing Lady Oracle, Margaret Atwood, like Joan, may have wondered whether she "should have taken it to a psychiatrist instead of a publisher." Fortunately, she did not. For if Atwood's last novel, Surfacing, was her basic black dress of a novel - trim, taut and meticulously crafted - then Lady Oracle is successful motley, a striking work made out of bright patches with all the crooked seams showing...