Word: accustomedness
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Wyke has the opportunity to actualize a macabre mastery when he invites Milo Tindle the lover of his wife Marguerite, to his isolated house late one evening. Wyke convinces Tindle that his modest income as a travel agent--best known for 'Tindle's Tours to Jamaica"--will not keep Marguerite...
A modest collection. Still, Walter Benjamin, unpacking his library, noted that "the chance, the fate, that suffuse the past before my eyes are conspicuously present in the accustomed confusion of these books." And there is, embedded in such infirm companions, a subtle aura, reminiscent of the sorrow which leaps up...
In the boldest move since he took office, Baby Doc dismissed Cambronne from his post as Minister of Interior and National Defense. No official reasons were given, but it seemed clear that Jean-Claude (undoubtedly encouraged by his strong-willed sister Marie-Denise) had finally decided that Cambronne, 42, had...
Nor does her appeal turn off when the cameras do; everyone in Hollywood is in love with her. "If only they were all like her, lady actresses," says Lost Horizon Co-Star Peter Finch. "The nicest goddamn actress I've ever seen on a set," says Laslo Benedek, director...
Professional wine critics are beginning to take California wines as seriously as the French wines that they are more accustomed to chronicling. California wines can be divided into two groups, generics and varietals. Generics are usually blends of wine made from several kinds of grapes, and are often sold in...