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Then, finally, he spoke directly to "my Savior, my Redeemer . . . I have sinned against you, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgetfulness, never to be remembered against me anymore." After a reading of Psalm 51, David's masterpiece of poetic contrition, the extraordinary performance was over. Parishioners wept with abandon, some of them prostrate on the floor. Frances and Jimmy's friends hugged him and led him away. Shortly afterward the preacher disappeared into his luxurious 14-acre estate...
...unredeemed corporate fortresses. Most of the ground floors will consist of shops and restaurants. Furthermore, Developer George Klein has promised to install elaborate commercial signs on the facades. On 42nd Street, Klein and his partners at the Prudential Insurance Co. have agreed to acquire most of nine architecturally precious old theaters (many now showing sex-and-mayhem movies) and spend $9.2 million to renovate those that become nonprofit playhouses. (A new hotel and merchandise mart are also envisioned for the same stretch of 42nd Street.) Finally, Klein and company will spend $81.8 million to spruce up the surrounding sidewalks...
...until the bad breaks began to overwhelm the bad sports did a few graceful U.S. instincts take hold. Downhill Racer Pam Fletcher, 25, missed her precious chance, when she crashed the day before the event into a skiing maintenance worker ("like hitting a tree") and broke her leg. After a brief cry, Fletcher was smiling again. "You can't have everything, you know," she said. "Where would you put it?" No American man or woman had ever finished as high as sixth in an Olympic luge, and when Bonny Warner moved up from the eighth position on her final...
...while New York proved not to be the wrestlers' Emerald City, Providence isn't looking to precious either. The Bruins sport a 9-2-1 record, and are tied with the Lions for second place in the Ivy League...
...clothes to put in it. Instead he has filled the display window with sand and placed some talismans: bamboo glasses, Camargue grass, a mighty lobster (cooked) and other, more esoteric forms of sea life. When he returned to the salon last Thursday with his Golden Thimble -- all the more precious because his first one is locked away at Patou -- he found that his staff had laid an improvised red carpet, and he responded with a short champagne reception. The staff members were overjoyed. They had, after all, created the winning collection in just three weeks. For the designer...