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...funniest shorts of all belong to the English. Both "The Wrong Trousers" (a one-time Oscar winner) and "Bob's Birthday" (this year's winner) owe much of their irresistability to their particular brand of British humor. These two films are well-known among those in The animated know and for good reason...
...happy with my time," said Uta Pippig, after becoming the female winner of the annual Boston Marathon. Who could blame her. Finishing in 2:25:11, Pipping's time was slower than the one that earned her first place last year. Meanwhile, she beat out ail but thirty-nine men in the field and finished considerably faster than any of the times posted in 1896, the event's inaugural year. Only relatively recently have the Boston Marathon and sporting events like it around the country opened their doors to female participants. Given a chance to compete, women like Pipping have...
Ginger Rogers, the 1940 Oscar-winner best remembered for dancing cheek-to-cheek with Fred Astaire in a string of glittering, Depression-era musicals, died at her home in Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs. The pair first danced during Broadway rehearsals for "Girl Crazy," a 1930 Gershwin musical. Her close friend President Reagan (in an uncredited paraphrase of a Gloria Steinem one-liner) said in 1986: "Her male counterpart got the lion's share of publicity but Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and did it with high heels on, and did it backwards...
...winner of the Crimson Orangemen match will end the season as the second ranked team in the Eastern region--a distinction that will not lead to an NCAA bid, but would certainly be a welcome honor for the netwomen...
That was the simplest of the divisions between us, but hardly the only one. My tour in Vietnam had been different from the former captain's. I could not follow him to that extremity of desolation where his memories often led; he was alone there. Nor could the lottery winner follow the conscientious objector to his outpost of remembrance. The more we talked, the farther away we seemed to be. And we weren't even arguing...