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...touring Brazil spoke more candidly than their fellow athletes back home. Said Alexander Ditiatin, winner of a record eight medals at the 1980 Olympics: "I hope it's not true. After all, we have been preparing ourselves for such a long time, and all that work can't be thrown away...
...long. Her publisher, Bantam Books, celebrated the climb of Out on a Limb to the top spot on the New York Times paperback-bestsellers list. At the 1,992-seat Gershwin Theater, where Shirley MacLaine on Broadway is grossing $475,000 a week, a house record, another bash was thrown by the show's producers. 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...
...fascinating alternative to the normal courtship routine," says Andrew Schlein, a psychology Ph.D. who signs on as "Psydoc." He compares it to the experience of strangers thrown together in the cabin of an airplane, where closeness and anonymity allow an intimacy that might never happen in other circumstances...
When talking about analysis of her work, Welty has been known to mention W.C. Fields, "who read an analysis of how he juggled. He couldn't juggle for six years afterwards. He'd never known how it was done. He'd just thrown up the balls and juggled." But on the Saturday morning after her birthday party, she addressed the subject more solemnly, saying the writer builds something, while the analyst tears it apart to see what it is made of. "I think," she said charitably, "that whatever makes people feel in touch with a [she paused...
Vallone said he has thrown "a little b.p. [batting practice] in the cage" since tossing two thirds of an inning last year. That appearance--a two-run outing against Boston College--was his college debut...