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...mimics a journalist's banal patter: "Joe Turner, you know that you are a Kansas City figure. You're a backbone of Kansas City, so tell us something about yourself." Later, Basie sits down at the foundation's scarred piano and improvises a few bars of two-fisted stride, then looks up, deadpan, at the camera: "That...
Kabul does retain some scraps of its former character. Donkeys laden with wicker panniers of fruit plod along the muddy side streets. Women beggars, their faces concealed completely by hoods with mesh eye holes, wail for baksheesh outside rug stores. Turbaned tribesmen from the mountains stride along shouldering huge bundles. Boys offer sticks of lamb shashlik grilled over charcoal at street corners. Outside moviehouses there are garish posters of Afghan-made westerns in which ersatz Omar Sharifs twirl six-shooters in each hand. But the cinemas are open only in the afternoons, and ticket sales are slow because...
...which was in vogue among biologists, who were using such names as cistron, recon and muton to describe new genetic concepts. The initial discovery was made in November and duly recorded in Isaacs' lab notebook under the entry: "In search of an interferon." Lindenmann took it all in stride. Said he: "I thought it quite natural that when you did research you discovered things...
...Covering Bush is like covering an athletic event," says Brew, who has matched his fellow jogger almost stride for stride from Iowa to Maine to Puerto Rico. "Despite the routine gladhanding of politics, Bush truly likes people and is getting a kick out of running for President." Bush and his wife Barbara also work hard to ensure that their press escorts enjoy the process as well. Recalls Brew: "When I spent a day at their home in Houston, Barbara offered to do my laundry, while George-no one calls him Mr. Bush-lent me swim trunks and my choice...
...Mary Tyler Moore, she has tackled the play with aplomb. Her eyes are pools of pain across which imps of mischief sail. Her charm could heat igloos. Without taking a single step, she has made the transition from TV to the stage in perfect stride. -T.E.Kalem