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Agnew spoke emotionally of his return. His voice cracking slightly, he greeted the townspeople in the name of his late father. "At his knee I learned of this town and of the principles of the ancient Hellenes." He was greeted, in turn, by his father's cousin, Andreas Anagnostopoulos, 59, who still lives in the family house and who stood on tiptoe to kiss his relative on both cheeks...
...sweating heavily in the noonday sun, whipped out a large white handkerchief and mopped the vice-presidential brow. "He is the greatest Greek," cried another. In a doorway of the family house, a two-story whitewashed stone and stucco affair built 161 years ago, Agnew met his black-clad cousin Anastasia and Anastasia's 19-year-old son Demokratis, who presented him with a bouquet of red gladioli. Inside-while at the doors a crowd of people claiming to be relatives waved invitation cards and tried vainly to get in-Agnew's family served him stewed fruit...
...cousin always told a story about a friend who prepared a doctoral thesis several years ago. In the middle of the thesis he included a passage reading. "I have $20. The first person to ask me for it can have half of it. The second person, and every other person thereafter, can have one half of the remaining amount." His address followed...
...thesis was read--well, at least graded--by three professors, none of whom mentioned the money. Two years later a Harvard senior collected $10. My cousin's friend still...
...unhappy penchant for remembering an old Jewish magician (Orson Welles) who told her parables one day long ago in Central Park. Jaglom spends most of his time cutting abruptly back and forth between scenes of fantasy and reality with a technique that is about as experimental as your cousin's old Chemcraft set. Eventually S/N, unhappy with her life, either flies away or poisons herself in a bubble bath...