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This killing is "precisely why we have an armed guard here on weekends and our managers carry these," said George--'I live in Cambridge, so that's all I can tell you'--the day manager at Hungry Charley's, as he flashed the tear gas cannister he carries in his shirt pocket...
...Brazil, where the nuts come from," said Charley's aunt, thus inadvertently assessing the extent of nearly everyone's knowledge of a country that covers 6% of the earth's land surface. But Brazil, especially Amazonia, is the last old-fashioned Eldorado left, a trove of unexploited gold, rare woods, precious stones, exotic pelts and untold deposits of minerals. It is also one of the last places where the bloodshot eye of the fatigued humanist can still see in progress the fatal consequences of Eldorado: the destruction of indigenous peoples. Lucien Boclard, a French journalist and author...
...Owsley's chief administrator, had a peculiar way of parceling out the jobs. Acting on a tip, Ashley found that Judge Campbell had appointed his wife as his executive secretary at $400 a month, and his niece as secretary to the county clerk at $300 a month. Sheriff Charley Mclntosh had taken on his wife as an assistant at $227 a month, and the county clerk had engaged his wife as county planner for $800 a month...
...David does nothing. When he is decoyed by a hunting invitation, two workmen rape his wife. She is so ambivalent by now that she half-enjoys old-lover Charley, if not friend Tom. And she doesn't tell David of the gang-bang...
...crowd. (The problem, it would seem, of making Christ a clown is that clowns are more apt to follow than to lead.) At times, his tone becomes overly solicitous--like a travel agent describing the most suitable road to heaven--but mostly he's the kind of good time Charley you'd be happy to include in any rag-tag gang. As Judas, Lloyd Bremseth has less to do; Godspell being as nonlinear as it is, he is more Christ's alter-ego than he is Christ's adversary...