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Notable is a section that takes place not long before Reuben Sledge goes down into The City. Life gradually drags him into total withdrawal: he spends day after day festering alone in bed, drawing into himself, utterly isolated in a concrete cellar room. He reads a lot of books: they depress him, increase his loneliness. He stops reading, and as he struggles to hang on to his sanity he becomes excruciatingly familiar with every individual cement block in the cell. Fighting to keep from fading entirely to within his own head, his lunge at reality turns to memorizing each idiosyncrasy...
...evening. Wyke convinces Tindle that his modest income as a travel agent--best known for 'Tindle's Tours to Jamaica"--will not keep Marguerite living in the style to which she is accustomed. He persuades Tindle to steal a cache of jewels worth 100.000 pounds hidden in the cellar. Tindle will keep the tiresome Marguerite permanently, and Wyke will collect the insurance. Together they plan the artificial robbery, carefully obeying Wyke's insistence that it be a "true crime of the thirties, with all the amateur aristocratic quirkiness." The game proceeds as both Wyke and Tindle trick each other into...
Brown's loss dropped the Brains into the Ivy cellar for the eighth straight year. Princeton's defeat meant a 3-4-1 Ivy second for the Tigers, and next-to-last spot in the league...
DURING her childhood in Wisconsin, recalls Patricia Delaney, wine was a holiday treat, sticky-sweet muscatel reserved for family gatherings at Christmas. Her appreciation of what Ben Jonson called the milk of Venus broadened a bit during her travels as a TIME correspondent: in London the cellar of Justerini & Brooks was downstairs from her office. While reporting for this week's cover story on American wines, Delaney became a connoisseur of magnum-size skills...
Many individuals have been drawn into the fields because they savor living close to the soil while creating a product of pleasure. Jack Davies left his job as vice president of a Los Angeles metals company in 1965 in order to try reviving a then defunct champagne cellar. His Schramsberg champagne is now acknowledged to be the best produced in the nation, and last February President Nixon brought 14 cases to Peking to toast Chou Enlai. Russell Green abandoned his post as president of Signal Oil Co. to take over the Simi winery. Today it is one of the many...