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Charley is No. 5 in the hierarchy, and there is seemingly nothing to block his ascent-until he falls heel over head in love with a semigorgeous broad named Irene Walker. To the hulking bachelor hoodlum, she is "a classic, like the Truman win over Dewey." Irene is not Sicilian, but a Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist...
...engines, they taxied out to take off. Pettit was at the controls. "Slushy runway. Do you want me to do anything special for it or just go for it?" he asked. Wheaton: "Unless you got anything special you'd like to do." Pettit then described his planned ascent maneuvers, with the final, jesting caveat, "depending on how scared...
Nine years later he was offered a post he could not refuse: the directorship of BBC-2, Britain's new high-brow channel. His stewardship produced such series as The Forsyte Saga, Civilisation, The Ascent of Man and America. Attenborough, the brother of Actor-Director Richard Attenborough, did not thrive on administrative duties, however, and in 1977 he began the three years of work that would produce his own series. Life on Earth was first shown on the BBC in 1979 and has since gone through two reruns, receiving universal praise from British critics. The reason for so much...
...into an intricate work, closer to a fragmented fiction than to a fractured reality. Chosen from among the noted and notable of two overlapping intellectual eras, his subjects resemble characters from a diffuse and impressionistic novel. Brinnin has captured them, not at their peak, but in their moments of ascent or descent, grasping or clutching, and always searching...
...dollar's swift ascent, however, has been almost as unsettling as its previous weakness. American businessmen say that the robust currency has made their products too expensive abroad, and European leaders blame U.S. interest rates and the strong dollar for prolonging Europe's recession and fueling inflation...