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In such circumstances it takes rare poise and awareness to appreciate when there is a gentler route to the net, especially if the opposition is Wimbledon in the full throes of Crazy Gangness.

But while the externals of Nancy's life are evidently more than deserving of such scrutiny, the woman herself often seems to vanish beneath the drama of what's going on around her. There's no doubt that it takes rare courage to leave a husband in wartime, particularly when one is a refugee with a small child.

The Cultural Revolution's opening act was to close it in 1966 for being ruled by the bourgeois; the otherwise pathetically timid history museum on campus takes rare pride in having "resisted ultraleftist practice" to reopen in 1970.

"It's very surreal," Mr. Shore said, taking a break from an intense scene that required no fewer than 16 takes, rarer in TV than in movies, one sign of the care that the show has always taken.

It's hard not to take rare moments like these personally though.

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The Chelsea Hotel describes itself as "a rest stop for rare individuals," a euphemism that still manages to pass the truth-in-advertising test if you take "rare individuals" to mean artists and addicts, and "rest stop" to mean possible death.

"Bogie," he said, "took rare delight in performing a similar duty in the fountains of Hollywood," adding, "he was endowed with the greatest gift a man can have: talent.

The resulting furor, notably in France, where Mr. Polanski holds citizenship, saw the Swiss foreign minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, take rare public distance from her colleagues, particularly the justice minister, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, by suggesting the arrest had shown "a lack of tact".

"I have the distinct impression that a real mania has broken out among coin collectors," Dr. Stoyan said, which would take rare coins disproportionately more often out of circulation.

Robin Ventura took rare exception to a called third strike to end the sixth inning, dropping his bat in disbelief and waving at the outside part of the plate with his hand.