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Until now, Matthews, which was essentially gutted and refitted, has undergone the most dramatic transformation. Gone is the dry wall surrounding the staircases--which hid a metal rail from the 1920s that has been uncovered, repainted and extended upward. Gone is the abstract wood sculpture from the 1960s. Gone are the rats (or so hope administrators...
...difficult to learn that most players spend their lives gazing wistfully up at mediocrity's underside. Repeated discouragement, of course, leads to repeated equipment purchase. But gear possibilities are poor; you don't really want moving parts or a liquid crystal display on a racquet or a three wood...
...hunted deer; Richard Nixon spent weeks every summer at his large house by the Pacific in San Clemente (or the Western White House, as it was known) indulging in Californian luxuriance; Ronald Reagan visited his ranch in California faithfully each August, where he rode and cleared brush and chopped wood; in Kennebunkport, George Bush raced around in his cigarette boat and tended his East Coast patrician roots. When some of these Presidents spent many weeks away from Washington at these August sanctuaries, only editorialists, not the public, seemed to object. Absent from this list is Jimmy Carter, whose peanut farm...
...sleep in, read the papers and stroll around Oyster Pond, where specially outfitted gardeners had cleared away thickets of poison ivy. The McNamara house is spectacularly situated, at the end of a three-mile private road marked by red, white and blue balloons. Inside, there are bookcases and blond-wood furniture. The nearest neighbors are Mrs. Thornton Bradshaw, the widow of the RCA chairman, and Agnes Gund, president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. A visitor to the house said it has had an air of neglect since McNamara's wife Margaret died in 1981. McNamara...
...chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudofacts...