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...wrote the script from his own crime novel of the same name, and drew the marriage of Nick and Nora Charles from his own arrangement with Lillian Hellman--a quick and sophisticated rapport where constant insults only feed their affection. Their craziness is harmonious because everyone else is a creep. William Powell and Myrna Loy star, having cocktail number one at breakfast and shooting out the tree bulbs at Christmas...
...massage in a Karuizawa bathhouse reads eerily like Arthur Bremer's diary, in which he described a visit to a Manhattan massage parlor some time before he started stalking George Wallace. There might be a good doctoral thesis in the psychological relationship between the literary and the political creep in the late 20th century. Kawabata could not offer any further advice for it, however, since he quietly committed suicide in 1972 at the age of 72. -Lance Morrow
Into your life it will creep...
...rally of Midwestern Republican leaders in Chicago, even Vice President Gerald Ford seemed to be criticizing the President. Addressing the Watergate issue, he declared: "Never again must Americans allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents like CREEP (The Committee for Re-election of the President) to bypass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election...
...Bolivian people are players in a drama that is developing slowly but that moves inexorably to an unmistakable conclusion. Little by little the tentacles of Western society creep further from the cities into the countryside, strangling off the traditions inherited from the Indian past. It is because of its geography that Bolivia has eluded the grasp of modernism for as long as it has. Its brutal altiplano in the west, its gaping valleys in the center and its impassable jungles in the east have made efficient communication and transportation almost impossible until very recently. But, with economic progress...