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...economy, Alther divides these five young people into the three who will leave home and the two who must stay. After much comic fumbling and steamy negotiating, Jed takes Sally's virginity. She responds like any well-brought-up Southern girl in the early '60s: "She clung to his hand, seeking from his fingertips assurance that he still respected her, would protect her reputation, would eventually marry her, and would love her forever. That didn't seem like too much to ask." When her pregnancy finally occurs, Sally and Jed marry and concoct an earlier wedding date...
...Chalatenango department, only 45 miles north of the capital, an estimated 1,000 guerrillas have been holding off a government force of equal size for more than a week in one of the biggest battles of the campaign. Dug into mountain caves and concrete bunkers, the guerrillas have clung to their positions despite infantry assaults, artillery barrages and air strikes...
...sites of death and destruction. Barely 1,000 people took advantage of Plan S. Many preferred to join relatives abroad-they flew out of Rome and Naples at a rate of 200 a day-but the vast majority simply stayed put. Deeply suspicious of the central government, they clung to the shattered remnants of their old lives, enduring privation, disease and wet, bitter weather that turned their devastated villages into muddy swamps. "What the people in Rome and Naples seem to have forgotten is that we are all farmers here," explained Felice Imbriani, mayor of Conza della Campania, some...
...almost all these versions of the legend of the artificial man there clung the aura of evil. To create a living being was God's role; to imitate God was blasphemous, even diabolic, and thus doomed to disaster. Hence Frankenstein...
...movie roles that led to his breakthrough in Scarface (1932). In his later years his career lagged, and he was barred from re-entering England because of associations with real-life mobsters including Bugsy Siegel and Dutch Schultz. He maintained that the unsavory underworld image that clung to him was "my gimmick-it was the only way the public would accept...