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...crack was the first in a barrage of good-humored quips that Reagan tossed off after the shooting. The remarks, made before he had learned that other victims had been critically injured, did much to reassure his family, his staff and the American public that he was still healthy enough to laugh. They were also the envy of at least one other comedian. Said Johnny Carson to his audience at Hollywood's Academy Awards ceremony: "I was tempted to call him and ask if he had any more of those one-liners I could...
With its 16th-place finish at last summer's Senior Nationals in Irvine. Calif., the club demonstrated that it has quality swimmers as well as quantity. With that performance, the Gators became the first New England squad ever to crack...
...extroverted, jovial and quick to crack a joke; the other is introverted, serious, and reluctant to lavish praise. One de-emphasizes the importance of swimming--his team plays Ultimate Frisbee every Friday afternoon instead of lifting weights; the other demands an almost totalitarian dedication from his swimmers. And while one is characterized as "just one of the guys," the other is described as radiating a "god-like" and "fear-some" presence during workouts...
...until the last sentences of his minute-long report disclose to his viewers that authorities had decided the man could not have had anything to do with the Atlanta killings. Atlantans were even more irked at a Washington Post story last week that described their city as "about to crack" under the civic and racial pressures caused by the killings. "Where do they get that stuff?" asked Assemblyman Brooks...
...beautiful white people." And France's Prime Minister Raymond Barre, who has a reputation for putting his pied in his bouche, described last October's bombing of a Paris synagogue as "this odious attack that was aimed at Jews and that struck at innocent Frenchmen"-a crack that not only implied Jews were neither innocent nor French but also suggested that the attack would have been less odious had it been more limited...