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...scaly tree trunks or sweep nearly empty stretches of roadway gutters. Business has slowed drastically even in places that cater to the rich. At Las Mañanitas in Cuernavaca, a favorite weekend retreat for the capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered this kind of crisis...
...enough for easy reference. The servants in particular benefit from the chance to present more than awkward carbon copies of the principals: John Bottoms as Mr. Snake displays: diabolical shuffle and sneer, while the faithful retainer Rowley (Richard Spore) has been so sharply characterized--his hands, legs, voice and cane tremble constantly--that at times he is barely comprehensible...
More and more Caribbean nations are tearing up irreplaceable rain forests to plant such export crops as bananas, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee and cacao. On the sea, tankers, carrying oil from Venezuela and more distant shores, crisscross the Caribbean; as much as half of the U.S.'s imported oil comes through these crowded sea arteries, many of them leading through dangerous, narrow straits...
Though Riggins came to Redskins Owner Jack Kent Cooke's casual pre-game party in white tie and tails, twirling a cane, he customarily dresses like someone who resides in a duckblind. "Riggo makes his own path in life," Washington Coach Joe Gibbs says, off tackle usually. For five seasons starting in 1971, Riggins was a member of the New York Jets and considered a bit strange even in New York City. Over money, he sat out the 1980 season in Washington. "I'm bored, I'm broke and I'm back," Riggins announced when...
...start he seemed to be writing with five pens in hand: verse, stories, novels, biographies, essays issued forth as from a publishing house. The son of a London real estate agent was famous at 30, striding through the town like a caricature, a voluminous caped figure, swinging a sword cane and spouting epigrams: "Silence is the unbearable repartee"; "All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it"; "The world will never starve for wonders; but only for want of wonder...