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...every dip sends car and driver down into the fog. But in the long, open stretches before Yarmouth, the moon is out, and clouds skid across its face. It's a good Maine road--frost heaves, of course--and it could be almost any place in the Pine Tree State. It could run just out of sight of the ocean up past Damariscotta and Pemaquid. It could run through potato country in Arostook. It could be bordered by blueberry stands, like the roads near Bar Harbor. Pretend there are some mountains, and it could be near Rangeley and the lakes...
...structure--complete with studio and panoramic plate-glass windows for viewing the launch--was installed backwards. It faced not pad 39A, from which the shuttle blasts off, but a swamp. So ABC had to call a crane to turn the entire two-story pine box around...
...Towering above the Smokies and the Adirondacks, higher than the Rockies, nearly as long as the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps combined, the Sierras form a land of light. Snow-splashed peaks of shining white granite rise jaggedly above the desert to the east. To the west, forests of pine and redwoods and roll to meet the San Joaquin...
...where are the problems? Colwin finds two and plays several variations on them. First, a young woman falls in love with a presentable man who would rather pine after her from afar than marry her. Complains the heroine of the title story: "Jacob wanted a grand event-something you would never forget but not something to live with. I wanted something to live with." In The Smile Beneath the Smile, a woman frets over the behavior of her hot-and-cold-running lover: "Andrew, if she agreed to see him again, would conduct their meetings like a series...
Harvard's number-one player, Jackie Corrigan, advanced to the quarterfinals of the main draw before running into the tournament's first seed, Jane Giammatel of Pine Manor. Giammatel overpowered the Crimson sophomore in three straight...