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...when the final blow comes--whether Larry Johnson whiffs on a dunk, or Charlie Ward loses his dribble in the paint, or Ewing's ungracefully aging knees finally give out--I'll store up the memory and trot it out years later, maybe the way Red Sox fans grumble and whisper, with repressed pride, of the Curse...
...with Democrat Joe Lieberman. But now Gorton was bouncing off the walls of the radio-TV gallery like Mister Rogers on a caffeine binge. What had happened? Perhaps the normally temperate Gorton had simply been worn down by the marathon negotiations. Perhaps he wanted to be the first to trot out that overworked movie title. Or, perhaps, like so many others, he had been driven temporarily insane by full-frontal exposure to the case against Clinton...
...crowd. It seemed that no one's anonymity was safe from Clinton's all-encompassing agenda. Most people thrust into the spotlight didn't know how to handle their fifteen seconds, with the exception of Sosa, who blew kisses to the crowd and nearly broke into a home run trot around the House Chamber. All other honorees took Madonna's advice and struck a pose, or at least stuck to one. The Desert Fox serviceperson looked like he had recently taken a double dose of Prozac. As for Dan Glickman, well, you can't blame a Secretary of Agriculture...
During a trip to China, Roberta Sobel, 64, a retired schoolteacher, saw hundreds of people performing Tai Chi in parks and vowed to try it herself. Since then, her senior-center classes in Miami have made her a convert. "I come from a generation that did the fox trot and the waltz, and Tai Chi is like dancing," she says. "It gives me a general sense of well-being. I'm more relaxed, and I have more energy." It has also made her more flexible. "I can bend and pick up something from the bottom shelf at the grocery store...
...gyrating your pelvis by a keg doesn't satisfy your dancing urges for the weekend, try some classier moves at the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team's Sixth Annual Beginner's Competition. Cut a rug with the fox trot, waltz, swing and cha cha. 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., Lowell Lecture Hall. 493-6024. $5 per person in advance, $7 per person at the door...