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Landscape of Despair. Mauriac's style, as well as his faith, was shaped by the provincial Catholicism of Bordeaux, where he was born. He was bred in a particular kind of Catholicism: peculiarly French, narrowly provincial, at times almost suffocating. The influence of Jansenism, fiercely moralistic and unforgiving, was still strong. The youngest of five children, Mauriac grew up under the eye of a mother who was both domineering and dogmatically religious. He was so burdened by a sense of guilt that even his Bordeaux landscape wore the aspect of sin, as expressed in the outburst of a character...
...furor, the ban is not likely to cripple the industry. Less than 1% of its $300 million in annual sales comes from spotted cats; the bulk comes from the sale of minks and other animals bred for their pelts, which are not on the endangered list...
...waded out 12 yds. from shore by two handlers. The hounds are released, and the baying dog who can swim to the log and dump the coon into the drink in the shortest time (winning time: 11.1 seconds) is declared the winner. A well-bred sire can bring up to $9,000; raccoons come free to those who can catch them. The canine competition continues through drag races toward a caged coon hanging from a tree and another atop a floating gasoline drum. Among raccoon hunters this is all high art, punctuated by discussions about the bark, speed, height...
...Metalluna!" ejaculates the Alien as a blow-up of a glass marble grows in another window. However, they arrive at Metalluna only to see it devastated by its enemies and taken over by a race of mutant insects the inhabitants had bred as slaves. The three return to Earth in the nick of time. The Alien plunges his saucer into the ocean after bidding adieu to the Earthlings. And the girl admits that she was the one in Vermont after...
Nijinsky was bred in Canada by E. P. Taylor and sold to Charles Engelhard for a paltry $81,000. Considering the $150,000 paid for the full brother to Majestic Prince at last weeks' Keeneland yearling sales, Nijinsky was a bargain at any price...