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...group together. Donny is firmly segregated elsewhere, while Emily and Raymond turn out to be misfits and loners; she is gawky and plays basketball, while he collects stamps and mopes around in rayon shirts and reindeer sweater vests. Only Sally and Jed thrive in their environment and become small-bore celebrities: the pretty, peppy cheerleader and the swaggering varsity tackle...
...Kings. Three dallied with Charles II (1630-85), a compulsive philanderer whose amorous activities produced more than a quarter of the 26 dukedoms in Great Britain and Ireland. The fourth royal paramour, Arabella, daughter of the first Sir Winston Churchill, was a favorite of James II (1633-1701) and bore him a daughter. In short, while Diana's blood may run blue, even purple, scarlet women and black sheep have added to its color...
...unveiled. No fewer than 65 veterans who had fought with Shaw stood at attention. "Many of them were bent and crippled, many with white heads, some with bouquets," wrote Saint-Gaudens. Cannon on the Common fired a salute. William James, the philosopher, declared that the casualties' common grave "bore witness to the brotherhood of man." Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly...
...fails at life. At home her two young children are glued to the telly and her husband Geoffrey (John Cunningham) has to send out for chips to feed them since the fridge is bare. Geoffrey, a personnel manager on the skids, has been crossed off as a crashing bore by Rose, and salves his hurt with a nightly round of the pubs...
...Every time someone held up a pie-shaped chart of the state budget I fell asleep." For the next 15 years, he made his living by writing some 30 inconsequential novels and innumerable short stories under a variety of aliases, including Simon Quinn, Jake Logan and Nick Carter. None bore much resemblance to their originator, an intense longdistance runner whose coloring and physiognomy "display a classic mix of genes -my mother is mostly Pueblo Indian and my father is straight out of an Andy Hardy movie...