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...about in her childhood adventure stories. But she inevitably takes this image of childhood romantic vision too far. Luisa tells how she sits and dreams--and then tells how she hugs herself until her arms turn blue. Again and again, a potentially moving moment is totally transformed with a wink of the eye, as it suddenly becomes absurd. An initially pleasant duet between Luisa and Matt (Vaughn Winchell) becomes odd--to say the least--when it breaks into a cheerful counterpoint of Matt singing. "You are love!," and Luisa rejoining, "I am love...
Gonzalez evades pointed questions with a conspiratorial wink. Will he disclose the locations of two other training camps that he purportedly runs in Florida? Wink. Can he provide the names of any of the former U.S. Army Special Forces officers he allegedly employs as instructors? Wink. How about a visit to Gonzalez's putative paratrooper school in Fort Myers, Fla.? He would like to oblige, but... Wink...
There are two types of plays in Tiddlywinks. One is potting--what laymen usually consider the object of the game--to get the winks in the cup at the center of the playing field. But tactics depend on squopping--immobilizing other players' winks by landing on them. Points are tallied at the end to determine the winner: one point for every unsquopped wink and three for each potted...
...turn up to give a Commencement speech, Lord appeared on Channel 5 to comment on negotiations between Massachusetts Hall and the White House and she was clearly rooting for the big event to come off. "As usual, I would have loved all the press," she says, adding with a wink, "but I don't think my views were widely shared. Oh well."CrimsonNevin I. ShalitDEANE LORD...
...Houdini's identity-switching act on the street, points out that some people rank New York's Washington Square Park ahead of Cambridge. "No way. They don't know what they're talking about, and you can tell because they all want to come here," he explains with a wink...