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...first and second in the javelin competition. Steve Niemi and Hughes routinely polished off what was thought to be a strong Eli hammer line-up, notching another eight points for Harvard. Steve Haynes surpassed teammate Blayne Heckel in the pole vault, providing the proverbial icing on the field event cake...
...There's no baloney with Grandma," Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's grandson Christopher Lawford observes toward the end of this book. Christopher's young cousin, John F. Kennedy Jr., explains: Rose likes you to learn a lot, and she gives you plenty of cake...
Equality's claims are just as insistent. They begin as early as the child's "It's my turn," the sense of injustice when brother's piece of cake is larger than his. Fairness, evenhandedness, seems a natural property of equality-first come, first served-and accounts for that deep-seated American prejudice against queue jumpers and insiders' advantages. Equality also speaks to the generous impulses: the readiness to help the other fellow and succor the needy, the unwillingness to seem superior to one's fellow man or lord it over...
...Henri Langlois' hallowed Cinémathèque Française. The first night coincided with Gloria's 75th birthday, a statistic proved ridiculous when she appeared at the birthday party in a slinky blue and green diagonally striped gown. After blowing out the candles on her cake, Chicago-born Swanson told the crowd assembled at the cinema museum that she had always felt at home in France. Why? "Because with my Swedish ancestors I surely have a little French blood in my veins," said Gloria mystifyingly...
...swoony, slicked-up prose that rings with a sort of distorted familiarity. Her reveries are shaped and peopled by popular legend. Kit, to her, looks just like James Dean. Her reminiscences sound like a diary read to a blank wall. She recalls that her father kept his wedding cake in the freezer for ten years, and that after her mother's funeral he presented it to the yardman...