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...looked at me, then at the pool, and said, "This 'ere's a public bath, i'n it? And ye're the public, aren...
...that act seemed foolhardy, it was nevertheless typical of Gallo, who never had the sense to play by the rigid rules of the brotherhood. He grew up with his brothers Larry and Albert in Brooklyn's Bath Beach, where mobsters often dumped their victims. One of his neighbors recalled Joey as "the kind of guy who wanted to grow up to be George Raft. He would stand on the corner when he was 15, flipping a half-dollar, and practice talking without moving his lips...
...Africa and met Kenyatta for the first time on Kenya soil. Now President of his country, Jomo gave the Queen his nation's highest award-the Order of the Golden Heart. Elizabeth responded by investing her host with the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and-for an old warrior turned rose fancier-a silver flower bowl...
When Chaucer's earthy Wife of Bath made that ill-veiled threat, literature was still largely in the hands not only of men but monks. It was more than four centuries before women in any numbers began to write fiction; but almost as soon as they did, it was clear that writing talent has no gender. Jane Austen is one of the supreme geniuses of the novel, and only a handful of writers have exceeded the accomplishment of George Eliot, the Brontës, Virginia Woolf. For years, though, criticism has been full of daffy generalizations uttered with patriarchal...
...their writing about love. Today, however, a good deal of serious women's fiction is echoing to the cadences of hate, or at least anger. There are enough stories about the wickedness of men and descriptions of male lapses in courage and feeling to delight the Wife of Bath...