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...dipso poet named Skippy Mountjoy. Albert drops by to walk their dachshund every day. His girlfriend is a youthful, frantically athletic woman whom he calls the Human Dynamo. She telephones lim at night from New Canaan, Conn., to wonder whether the vanity plates on her new BMW should say YOGURT or SUNDAE or MUFFIN. Stooped by his literacy and sorrow, Albert must listen to the Dynamo complain: "You don't play tennis, you don't snow-ski, you don't water-ski . . . Albert, we have nothing in common." The Dynamo later lets fly with some...
Families were meandering around with cameras and water and wrapping the shining foil "Marathon blankets" around the runners to conserve their body heat. Police tried, mostly in vain, to control the jubilant crowd, and hucksters wandered throughout the crowd peddling everything from armbands to yogurt...
Dressed in Afghan clothes and with an eleven-day growth of beard covering his $8 million face, he looked a little like a young extra in a Dannon yogurt commercial. But with pluck, luck and a crew of four, Dan Rather risked not only his life but the ulcers of CBS executives to bring back some of the first detailed film accounts of the fighting between Afghan rebels and Soviet soldiers for a 27-minute segment of 60 Minutes. Rather's whispered report from a darkened mountain ledge sounded like a cross between one of Edward R. Murrow...
...television rights to the Moscow Games (and with laudable forbearance has stayed out of the argument over the boycott). For $50,000 to $300,000, a company can buy into the Games; Dannon paid up, for example, and so can advertise itself, with meaningless grandeur, as "The Official Yogurt of the 1980 Winter Olympics...
...said to have a weak heart, has suffered from a form of undulant fever and can work for only a few hours a day. Still he performs the devout Muslim's daily ritual of prayer without visible effort. He subsists on a sparse diet of rice, bean curd, yogurt and raw onions, supplemented now and then by a slice of melon or a bit of mutton. There are some signs that power has begun to intoxicate him. He has admitted enjoying the adulation of the crowds, and he took personal command of the government, though he had originally said...