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...higher the national figures climb, the more it dramatizes the situation locally...
Last week Anna's parents received the first payment of an annual allowance that starts at $81,990 and will climb to $5.5 million if she lives to be 78, as her doctors say she could. Soon she and her parents will also collect $1.2 million, of which $650,000 will go to their lawyer. The $122 million package, agreed to by both sides, is known as a structured settlement, and it offers something for everyone. The plaintiff escapes the risk of mismanaging a lump-sum payment and owes no taxes on the annuities. The defendant, or his insurer...
...conquests; and what she wants, she gets. She manages to capture the mind and body of the new Portuguese governor. As the governor's slave, Xica wields her effervescent sensuality to the hilt, thus ascending to the most prominent social position in the land. Xica's fairy-tale-like climb does not go unnoticed by her fellow slaves or the Portuguese officials in Brazil. And these characters react in stereotypical--and unrelentingly comic--fashion to Xica's rise with their expressions of jealously and desire...
...nearest flicker of civilization, in the depths of the Peruvian jungle, a mile-long clearing has been hacked to connect two rivers. On one bank rests a 300-ton steamship with its nose pointed up the 40-degree slope of a mountain, looking like a stranded whale waiting to climb a steep beach. A series of ropes connect the ship to massive human-powered wooden winches and a lone bulldozer. The engineer, who designed the system to tackle a 20-degree grade, has quite fearing for the lives of the Indian workers if a metal clasp or something else should...
...outside the narrow confines of Manhattan, and that the jokes and insights New York fans loved would not only fall flat but offend when transpose to a different environment. You never knew, either, whether the latest Allen film would be hailed or condemned as tripe after its initial upward climb. Not only did no one know what Allen would do next; no one was under any obligation to admire...