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After arriving by U.S. Marine Corps helicopter, the leaders of the West will be taken by horse-drawn carriages to the Georgian-style Governor's Palace. During their stay, the dignitaries will dine on such regional delicacies as batter-fried crayfish, Southern-fried chicken and Tex-Mex chile con carne, prepared under the direction of Chef Pierre Monet, formerly of Maxim's in Paris. At the President's insistence, the leaders will not even be burdened with the rigors of a formal agenda. As one White House aide put it, "The challenge is to keep things...
...young servant was "mighty pretty," thought Samuel Pepys, and it was not long before his wife "did find me embracing the girl con my hand sub su coats." In that babel of cryptic foreign words, inscribed in an equally cryptic shorthand, Pepys confided to his diary all the earthiest details of his rakish life in London in the 1660s. There was plenty to confide. Mrs. Pepys made him dismiss the girl. Pepys gave his servant a lofty talk, warning her to "have a care for her honour and to fear God." He then paid her 20 shillings to tell...
...only hope that Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III never sees the opening of Guys and Dolls. A steady stream of undesirables hurries across the stage, always one step ahead of the police. As prostitutes, gamblers, street vendors, con men and an intoxicated boxer, the actors recreate the Times Square atmosphere so well that Dean Epps might very well ask them to take a semester off and warn their roommates to lock up their valuables...
...requiring that action. Hastings also offered a parade of 50 witnesses, including three judges who testified to his integrity. Borders, concluded the defense, was simply engaged in the time-honored legal scam of "rainmaking," in which bribe money is smoothly returned if the judge fails to do what the con man guessed he would...
...WHOLE, the movie suffers from overnarration--too much tell, not enough show. Time really does stand still when the old con begins to tell the Koves boys about his "purification" in prison. A dramatic moment hovers in the wings, but the talk degenerates into a discussion of the con's agricultural opinions and the potential disappears. Such subtlety may tell us more about the "purification" than a blown-up scene, but man cannot live on realism and understatement alone. "Boredon is itself boring...