Word: dealer
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There is also the Lucas who wants to dazzle filmgoers with his luxurious bestiary. The Gungan klutz Jar Jar Binks, who talks (sometimes unintelligibly) like a Muppet Peter Lorre and walks as if he had Slinkys for legs, is more annoying than endearing. But the junk dealer Watto is a little masterpiece of design: cinnamon stubble on his corrugated face, chipped rocks for teeth, the raspy voice of Brando's Godfather speaking Turkish, hummingbird wings that give him the aspect of a potbellied helicopter. He, Jar Jar and the other computer-generated critters are seamlessly integrated into live action...
Several stories explore the characters' futile search for something that is no longer there. In "The Haunted Beach," art dealer Penelope has avoided a Mexican town for years because beautiful memories of it include a man she would rather forget. When she feels she has done so and goes back with a different companion, nothing is as she remembers it, and she vainly tries to recapture her past feelings for the place. Its perfect beauty, at least in her eyes, is gone. Just as she is less happy and older than on previous visits, now the grass is dingier...
...Several stories explore the characters' futile search for something that is no longer there. In "The Haunted Beach," art dealer Penelope has avoided a Mexican town for years because beautiful memories of it include a man she would rather forget. When she feels she has done so and goes back with a different companion, nothing is as she remembers it, and she vainly tries to recapture her past feelings for the place. Its perfect beauty, at least in her eyes, is gone. Just as she is less happy and older than on previous visits, now the grass is dingier...
...England, Germany and Spain, as well as the various lay and ecclesiastical bigwigs of Italy and the successive Popes themselves. The last person to leave a big gift of medieval Italian art to San Francesco was, oddly enough, a 20th century American who died in 1955--the collector-dealer Frederick Mason Perkins, a friend of Bernard Berenson...
Kidder surveys Northampton through several sets of eyes--those of a local judge, a shelf of historians, a gabble of politicians, a small-bore drug dealer and an adult scholarship student at Smith College. But the observer who tells most of the story--whose life, to a considerable extent, is the story--is a not quite middle-aged town cop named Tommy O'Connor. If what he had to tell were simply the reports of night patrols, arrests made, cars chased, shots taken or withheld, the view would be a narrow kind of truth. But O'Connor was born...