Word: handkerchiefs
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...winner of Muhammad Ali's last battle in 1981, Ali received two old newspaper friends in his hotel suite. He only faintly remembered them and vaguely introduced his fourth wife. He performed his card tricks as if they had never seen them before, and once more stuffed the disappearing handkerchief into his plastic thumb. "I'm good, I'm free," he said with an animal effort, a coughing rumble and a low growl. "I stay so busy, I'm in another world. All my boxing, it was all for this." Painstakingly, appearing unable to concentrate on more than one thing...
Messner has been called tactless and egocentric by his critics. After his solo ascent of Everest, for example, he told admiring fellow South Tyroleans, "I do this for myself because I am my own fatherland, and my handkerchief is my flag." On talk-show stints, he tends to shout down other guests. Indeed, a mountaineer who has known him for years thinks fame has been hard on a man who finds peace in solitude: "Everyone wants to get in touch with him. Everybody wants to shake his hand." He is divorced from West German Journalist Uschi Demeter, and lately, says...
Some revisions are minor or obvious. Dated references to streetcars, sleeping powders and the children's game drop the handkerchief will come out. The statement "I like to take a bath," which had been attracting "false" answers from shower lovers, will become "I like to take a bath or a shower...
...prison can be hard on a man, and when Gotti finally appeared last week in Brooklyn Federal Court, the "Dapper Don" of the tabloids showed signs of fashion fatigue. No tie. No tan. His graying hair no longer meticulously styled. Only a starched white pocket handkerchief, practically a Gotti trademark, hinted of better days as the alleged head of the Gambino crime family. While attorneys painstakingly questioned prospective jurors, whose names were kept secret for their protection, Gotti suffered another setback: U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson ruled that during the trial, the boss could not eat lunch in the courtroom...
...confident and rarely tongue-tied; with that ever so sly, slightly lidded look of hers, she imparted the gentlest hint of irony to the proceedings. The coaching that she received from Gandhi Director Sir Richard Attenborough paid off. Charles even provided a touch of Piccadilly farce by draping a handkerchief over his head to distract Sons William, 3, and Henry, 1, and then mugging like an attenuated version of his great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. The children were amused...