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...Others mangle metaphors. "From now on, I'm watching everything you do with a fine-tooth comb." Some don't add up at all. "Two and two don't make four in my book." Then there are the sayings that show a bit too much Freudian slip. "There comes a time to put principle aside and do what's right," goes one quote. "We've got them right where they want us," said another legislator. Proclaimed one statehouse leader: "The chair would wish the members would refrain from talking about the intellectual levels of other...
...with some rarefied leather and chain-mail combos that looked like rough-trade rigging that Prince Valiant might have worn to go cruising. Mariuccia Mandelli, who designs for Krizia, sent finlike flounces cascading all over suits and dresses-something, perhaps, for the spouse of Jaws' elasmobranch villain to slip into for the Oscars. There were the usual parades of plushy furs by Fendi and dazzling knitwear by Missoni, but even Gianfranco Ferré, who made the week's best showing with a severely drafted, almost architectural collection, took honors by default...
When Goddard and Andrea finally meet, Kosinski demonstrates his conviction that letting a shell slip is always suicidal. Insultingly, though, he is not brave enough to let us appreciate a subtle message, but subjects us to a bloodbath to drive home a fear we all share. His conclusion is not only heavyhanded, but upsetting in what it seems to advise. The fear of being hurt is real, but one we must accept as a worthwhile risk. Opening one's shell is always dangerous, but like Goddard we all need someone to trust. Staying secure inside a shell is lonely...
Scott Fusco took a pass from his brother at center ice and proceeded to work some of that old magic so familiar to the Bright Center crowd with winger Greg Olson Fusco skated through the middle and in on Behrend, slip ping the puck to Olson at the last second. The junior heat Behrend to the short side at 19 16 to even the score...
...noon the debate was over. Each of 124 Newfaners wrote yes or no on a paper slip and filed up to a pair of white wooden ballot boxes. Soon Houston announced, "94 for and 30 against," to a solid wave of applause...