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...crowd-black and white-applauded as the mayor of Boston walked down the city-hall corridor. "I understand," he said with a wink, "that some of you want to see me." On some days it seems as if everyone in Boston wants to see Kevin White, who has managed to temper the austere efficiency of his predecessor with urbanity and charm...
...Boston's Finest, caught munching a brownie, admitted, with a beguiling Irish wink, that he was tasting the goodies to make sure they had not been contaminated with a "dangerous drug...
Over the Fish. Grinning his winningest, winking his twinklingest, Rockefeller took it all in with obvious satisfaction. "Wonderful!" he exclaimed. "Terrific!" Then down to business, still smiling: "My position has not changed. We want to win. The party needs unity. I'm exactly where I was before. I'm not making any move." Wink. "You're winking at me, Governor," said a reporter. "I'm not winking at anybody," said the Governor...
...With a Wink. Among soft-drink companies, Canada Dry has been a notable laggard in adopting such strategy. While the industry more than doubled its sales volume in a decade, in great part by introducing new beverages-notably low-calorie drinks-which persuade new groups of customers to imbibe, Canada Dry added only one new product: Wink. Before Mahoney took charge 15 months ago, profits had skidded from $5,400,000 in fiscal...
...eyes, flaring nostrils and smoldering visage that prompted one of his many female admirers to compare him to "an untamed animal-sensual and earthy." Then Don Quixote: a reflection of his penchant for tilting in public at sacred cultural institutions. Then Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks: the insouciant wink-and-nudge of a joker who likes to imitate other people over the telephone, and who once threw an entire hotel into chaos during a concert tour by sneaking around the corridors early in the morning and changing all the breakfast orders...