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...They had heard the star telling an interviewer that the only thing she had never done was to ride an elephant. So when MacLaine arrived at the theater, she was caught by surprise, and nuzzled, by Targa, queen of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The pachyderm obligingly knelt to help MacLaine aboard-"She was so sweet and kind," the star said-though Targa also unfurled her trunk and snatched up most of MacLaine's chocolate birthday cake. Perhaps the most exuberant event was the Broadway song and dance itself. MacLaine showed off her Joshua's-trumpet...
...party in one of those porticoed palaces that seize an otherwise perfectly sane person with the desire to summon up some hounds and go terrorize a fox, the anniversary of her birth had been toasted with champagne. They put the author in a prominent chair, and people came and knelt to share a word. Elsewhere in the rooms, literary conversations were going on. The theme of the annual William Faulkner conference this year upstate at Oxford, one organizer volunteered, is the humor in Faulkner's works. "A lot of people just don't see it," he added...
Backup goalie Tracy Kimmel knelt at the blue-line and snapped one last picture of the group that had been at the heart of Harvard women's ice hockey over the past several seasons. They were not clad in their familiar Crimson jerseys, but instead in scarlet mesh jerseys enscribed with "Women's Hockey All Stars...
...undergraduate were arrested for belonging the mud leading to the launching site. The divinity and graduate students knelt and played in front of the gate at the site...
...societies have forfeited. Korean Air Lines took out newspaper ads to apologize to the families and the nation for the tragedy that befell Flight 007. And after the crash of a Japan Air Lines jet last year, the president of the airline visited the families of the victims and knelt before them to ask their forgiveness. Such acts not only move us, they remind us that the authentic apology is indeed possible...