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...residue of cross purposes and overstrained racial tolerances. In Dead Reckoning, a woman sets out on a sailboat with a new boyfriend. When they reach Nevis, she thrills to "my first true touch of paradise." Before long, her companion is locked in a battle of wills with a black beggar boy, who redoubles his efforts every time he is rebuffed. Soon the visitors are made to feel unwelcome, the woman especially so; she decides to abandon both the island and her partner. Her decision reminds her of an earlier tale: "I saw, like Eve, that paradise had become just another...
Though the Prime Minister had insisted that he was not going to the U.S. with "a shopping basket or a beggar's pack," it was obvious that his country was in desperate need of assistance. Inflation is running at almost 500%, and foreign reserves are dangerously low. Accordingly, a sympathetic President Reagan promised Peres that the U.S. would accelerate the delivery of this year's $1.2 billion in economic aid, paying the entire sum immediately instead of stretching it out through the usual quarterly installments. That will raise Israel's reserves to nearly $3 billion, thereby reducing...
Ever hear an audience smile? No? Then go see Eddie Murphy in Trading Places. You won't hear it when he makes his first appearance onscreen, as a not-blind, unlame beggar; that's the time when the moviehouse erupts with cheers and whistles and rhythmic chants of "Eddie! Ed-die!" Nor is it when his mouth gapes into an innocent, megawatt smile; that is the occasion for a huge communal laugh. No, it is when he is just standing there, waiting for some other actor to set up a screwball twist to the plot, that Eddie Murphy...
...laments were carried in O the Chimneys; André Schwarz-Bart chronicled The Last of the Just; Jerzy Kosinski described The Painted Bird. Wiesel himself was set free; his other books rushed into print: Dawn, The Accident, The Town Beyond the Wall, The Gates of the Forest, A Beggar in Jerusalem...
Based on Dorothy and DuBose Heyward's 1927 play and set in Charleston, S.C., Porgy is the story of a crippled beggar's unconquerable love for Bess, a lady of easy virtue. So strong is Porgy's passion that he kills his rival, Crown, and when Bess is whisked off to New York by the smooth-talking Sportin' Life, Porgy quixotically sets out after her in his goat cart. Porgy is a relic of the first important period in American opera, the '30s-a decade that also saw Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones...