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...medals and set six world records on their way to becoming the new royalty of international swimming. "Even the Australians are calling me the queen of the pool," said De Bruijn of the host country's enthusiasm for swimming and the 17,500 fans who rattled the roof with joy after each world record was rewritten. "I still feel like I am dreaming," she said after her 100-m freestyle victory. "It's a big cloud I am on." The question surrounding what the Dutchwoman might be on remained a dark cloud over the aquatic center despite eight glorious days...
Christopher Lee, former president of production at Columbia Pictures, remembers a comment an executive made to him, objecting to the film version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club: "There are no Americans in it." Lee replied, "There are Americans in it. They just don't look like...
...with stone the color of a stained shirt collar." Sheldon P. Anapol, the "likable and cruel" publisher and novelty peddler, succeeds with a combination of "hard-won cynicism, low overhead, an unstintingly shoddy product line and the American boy's unassuageable hunger for midget radios, X-ray spectacles and joy buzzers...
...each other at the same destination: fastest in the world. And then something happened that showed they were true kin under the skin. As Jones, overwhelmed, broke down sobbing under the stands, Greene was in the stadium behaving in an extraordinary manner - not swaggering, but crying too. "Tears of joy," both runners called them later...
Williams says even as the former slaves were told that they were now free, many showed no joy at the point of liberation...