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...colony on the west coast of Africa, has decided it no longer requires his services to oversee the refueling and supplying of passing ships. Grey does not place particular value on his job, the running of "a sort of gas station cum grocer's shop." But he will miss Bom Porto, the seedy, seductive capital of his adopted country, and his mistress Vera, a black woman of commanding girth and friendliness. Leaving her bed on one of the final mornings before his exile home, "George felt posthumous...
...Angeles. He was known, to his occasional annoyance, as a woman's director for his ability to evoke inspired work from many of the great actresses of the 1930s and '40s, including Academy Award-winning performances by Ingrid Bergman (in Gaslight, 1944) and Judy Holliday (in Bom Yesterday, 1950) and memorable ones by Greta Garbo in Camille, Judy Garland in A Star Is Born, and Katharine Hepburn, Cukor's discovery, in ten productions, including The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib. Cukor also directed James Stewart, Ronald Colman and Rex Harrison to Oscars. Despite his films...
...Francisco airport because of a transit strike." The Americans who fought in Viet Nam responded when their country asked them to give up their freedom and possibly their lives to do violence in the name of something the Government deemed right. Veteran Ron Kovic's painful book Bom on the Fourth of July described how the image of John Wayne unreeling in the adolescent mind functioned as recruiting poster and subliminal role model. In any case, they went. But psychically at least, the country did not want them back...
...Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Bom beck...
...Life Is a Bowl of Cherries -What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Bom beck...