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Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro, who along with F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt helped compile the research for the project, approached her assignment with a quake-wise Californian's cool. Born on a cattle ranch north of Oakland, she knew well the tale of how her greatgrandparents' chimney toppled into the kitchen during the 1906 San Francisco disaster. Like many Californians, she has often felt the earth move. The last time was in June. While Castro sat reading a Virginia Woolf novel on a mountain in the Coast Range, the earth began to "boogie and shake." Suddenly she realized that...
...final story, "Passionella, concerns Ella, played by Barbara Fazio, a chimney sweep who aspires to movie stardom. Her wish is granted by that irrepressible snake, and she finds her Prince Charming, a curious sequined admixture of Presley, James Dean and Jagger played by Michael Blake. "Passionella" is the most entertaining skit of the three. It is energetic and funny but, unfortunately, like the other skits, it is performed sloppily. Costume changes are made too hastily, sounds are emitted from the orchestra which have nothing to do with what is happening on stage, and the choreography is slipshod. Perhaps the plays...
There are two exceptions to the general rule in my town the grain elevators side-by-side like five non-filtered cigarettes on end and red and white striped white striped chimney of the Veterans Administration...
...tribute Dame Sibyl exacted from the islanders included the traditional tenth sheaf of all cereals harvested and a live chicken each year as tax on every kitchen chimney on her tenants' houses. Even so, she observed with her usual wryness, "they only give me the thinnest and oldest." Other seigneurial privileges included the right to keep bitches, forbidden to the Sarkese for fear that a proliferation of dogs might drive sheep over the island's 300-ft. cliffs into the English Channel. That noble prerogative caused one of the rare Sark rebellions against Dame Sibyl's authority...
...Maugards rent their two-story, three-bedroom house, a former vicarage, for $100 a month. They have repaired its worst defects, but there is no central heating. Two space heaters fight a losing battle against the damp cold of a Norman winter. "The chimney is cracked, and the mayor won't repair anything," she says. "The septic tank smells terrible, and we're crowded together. My two smallest children sleep in the same bedroom as my husband and I." Their grounds are ample, however. The Maugards are able to eat their own chickens, turkeys and rabbits, as well...