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Several years ago, French Screenwriter and Author Marguerite Duras recovered some notebooks stashed away in a cupboard. They dated from the last days of World War II, and in them she had recorded her anguished waiting for news of her husband, a concentration camp deportee. The diary she later published as The War records his return; he was so emaciated and weak that the weight of a cherry would lacerate his stomach. Duras also includes a chilling portrait of the Gestapo officer who arrested her husband and who then, impressed by Duras's literary reputation, tried to court her, confiding...
When Reagan first came to the White House in 1981, he found that Jimmy Carter had left the cupboard quite bare, and that one of his first acts would have to be to increase the national debt past $1 trillion. What an outrage, especially to a cost-conscious conservative! A trillion dollars--why, if you piled up that many $1,000 bills, Reagan told Congress, you would have a pile 67 miles high! "A monument to the policies of the past," said the new President, "which as of today are reversed." But since Reagan was also determined to increase military...
...brewed on three major fronts. Nabisco Brands (1984 sales: $6.3 billion) held exploratory talks with R.J. Reynolds (1984 sales: $13 billion). Wall Street speculates that Reynolds, which sells cigarettes, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Del Monte foods, would pay some $5.3 billion to gobble up Nabisco, king of the snack cupboard and maker of Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Baby Ruth candy bars...
...weather, vegetables, and domestic animals?" Nicholas demands, as he proceeds to undertake this task with twice as much time as Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy but with only half the wit. Luckily for him, the Devil (Bill Saunders) intervenes at just the right moment, stepping out inexplicably from the cupboard. (Has he been at those Pop-tarts again?) Through various ruses, he manages to finagle Flatford into signing away his soul in return for a large number of material goods to be provided before the following morning--sort of a C.O.D. arrangement. Nicholas outwits the devil with less-than-fiendish...
...before Henry VIII had him beheaded for refusing to recognize the King's right to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. Hans Holbein's sketch shows a prosperous Londoner in a fur-trimmed robe, surrounded by his family and his possessions-silver dishes in the cupboard, and a shelf or two of those rare luxuries, books. Mounted on the wall, dangling above More's head like a sword, hangs a clock...