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...window dressing. I like to get things done." ··· When Comedian Don Rickles took up a two-week gig at Lake Tahoe, he decided to try his hand at tennis. Rickles, 45, tried to master the game, until felled by a torn ankle tendon. Into the hospital he went, suffering too much even to insult the surgeon, and into his place went Singer Robert Goulet to take over the show. Said Goulet: "Don tripped over his tongue on the tennis court." ··· "Business and money are no longer my gods," said a chastened Billie Sol Estes...
...their relationship is almost puritanically free of any Nabokovian decadence. Addie's speech, however, is vulgar, pungent country talk, which adds greatly to the book's easygoing charm. Looking at Long Boy with his floozy, she observes that "he got that silly, dazed grin like a torn cat being choked to death with cream." Like that extravagant expression, the book is a long, tall, oldtime tale. But as Addie might put it, in the right hands that kind of yarn has a lot of prance left...
Neighborhood baseball was once a game that kids played with a borrowed mitt, perhaps, and often in tattered jeans and torn tennis shoes. It was one of America's summertime delights, pursued in high spirits. There might be a hassle or two over a bum call at first base, but a boy who dropped a pop fly suffered only the personal agony of embarrassment. Now, as highly organized Little League baseball, it is all too often a grim and tidily uniformed surrogate competition for adults, in which the stakes are parental egos and junior's gaffe becomes...
...Right to Die. Judge David Potter was no less torn by the dilemma. U.S. law has not really resolved the issue, though criminal prosecutions against doctors are rare and heavy sentences rarer still. Unable to find any precedent to guide him, Judge Potter concluded that the law clearly opposes suicide but, just as clearly, Mrs. Martinez's treatment seemed as bad as her disease. "I can't decide whether she should live or die; that's up to God," said the judge. But, he added, "a person has a right not to suffer pain. A person...
Long, long ago-perhaps as far back as the early '60s-patches on worn or torn clothing were a mark of poverty, or at least of thrift. The patch has come a long way since then. Today it is colorful, clever, artistic and even ideological. Whether to hide holes on worn clothing or simply to adorn brand-new apparel-especially denim jeans and jackets-patching is the bright...