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Born on a farm outside Plainview, Texas, Country Boy Dean worked at cleaning neighbors' henhouses and picking cotton. Sundays he would sit at an old upright and play religious and "inspirational" songs. After a stint as an oiler in the merchant marine, he joined the Air Force, played in base bars for $5 a night. Today Jimmy lives in transportive Arlington, Va. with his wife Sue and their two children Gary (5) and Connie (3). He gets up at 3:30 every morning, downs a breakfast of three energy pills and a Waring-blended pint of cream, two eggs...
...being denitrogenized, the balloon was lying flat and limp on South St. Paul's Fleming Field. An Air Force crew turned helium into it, and bit by bit a bubble of plastic reared upward. At last the balloon, as tall as a 25-story building, was standing upright in the still early-morning air. At 6:27 a.m., it took off. Kittinger, his heartbeat still steady, radioed "Goodbye, cruel world...
...also how pathetic. The emotions that shape the internal world in which every man lives are perhaps most tellingly portrayed in art in terms of the human body. By one's very close to it, one cannot think otherwise. "Our continuous effort to keep ourselves balanced upright on our legs affects every judgment on design. The disposition of areas in the torso is related to our most vivid experiences, so that abstract shapes, the square and the circle, seem to us male and female, and that the old endeavor of magical mathematics to square the circle is like the symbol...
...army approached with Mustafa Jela, the seamed and middle-aged owner of the cows. The first witness (from the Jordan side of the fence) was a tracker who followed the path of the cows to the border. The second was a character witness for Jela. "He is an upright man who does not know how to lie," he said. "If he says the cows are his, they are his." Then came Mustafa himself. Swearing his oath on a Koran (printed in Israel), he told the court: "I know those cows as I know my children." Could he describe them, asked...
...play something extra. But if Hotel Paradiso lacks the sustained period-farce verve of last season's The Matchmaker, it may partly be because Lahr is not Ruth Gordon's equal as a center tent-pole, either in the sturdiness with which she held whole situations upright, or in the barbaric magnificence with which she could topple them over...