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There is the deep suspicion that Frank Reynolds considered himself a kind of marvelous accident. Television anchoring is about 60% God-given and 40% sweat. Hairlines, profiles and mellifluous tones go a long way toward moving a man or woman into the ranks of television's stars. Reynolds was a journeyman newsman with all of the above and also a pleasant way on-camera that came from his innate decency. The celebration of such qualities just might be better tuned in a more modest environment. Frank Reynolds probably would be among the first to agree...
...husband, who was superintendent of the school district, was sure someone was pulling his leg. But no, the maestro was in the area and wondered if there was a school interested in a spur-of-the-moment program. Rubinstein's greatness was in his wanting to share his God-given talent with others...
Boxing results: Leonard and Peretz out point Hagler and Cock burn, respectively, before a sellout in Madison Square Garden. "Everyone has a God-given talent." Leonard tells the press afterwards. "Mine happens to be mauling the hell out of other human beings' faces." Peretz, behind on two judges' scorecards, is named the winner when Cock burn is docked points for hitting below the belt...
...full of colored flats and wings-a marionette stage, behind whose proscenium the blobs and cylinders of color glow with shivering, theatrical ebullience. "Curious," as the English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarked in a recent essay on Hodgkin's work, "that no one has recognized in Hodgkin a God-given stage designer, a man with a mission to the theater of enrichment and augmentation...
...addition, Saddam's aggressively secular, socialist regime has long been anathema to Khomeini's philosophy of government, which insists on the clergy's God-given right to rule. With its 55% Shi'ite majority and Shi'ite shrines at An Najaf and Karbala, Iraq should, in Khomeini's view, be the natural home of a sister Islamic republic...