Word: confidantes
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But today, under military rule, Poland has grown sullen and weary. By returning to his homeland in its hour of need, John Paul wanted to revive the spirit of his compatriots. Said a Vatican confidant of the Pope: "Some people in Poland expect the Pope to perform a miraculous change...
The journey itself takes on epic proportions, though like most great Russian picaresques (such as Dead Souls) the distance traveled is insignificant and indeed pointless. His monologue, punctuated only by the names of train stations along the Moscow-Petushki line, lurches into and out of reality like a rusty zoom...
That last sentence no one can dispute. Wouk's tale begins in the spring of 1939, with Hitler giving his generals the date for the invasion of Poland: Sept. 1. As the series progresses, other events familiar from the history books fly by: the fall of France, the Battle...
The only problem with Diva is that at times Beineix's knack for adding bizarreness to things like car chases and gangsters verges on the farcical. The Caribbean Connection's two henchmen are truly terrifying, especially the sinister aviator-man only says sentences beginning with "I don't like...." Yet...
DIED. Alfred Bloomingdale, 66, credit card tycoon and confidant to President Reagan; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. In the '40s Bloomingdale was a producer on Broadway (Ziegfeld Follies) and an executive at Columbia Pictures. Heir to the Bloomingdale department-store fortune, he made his millions and started the...