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...story. If poor John Hinckley Jr. [May 24] had lived in an earlier age, he might have run off to sea, joined the Foreign Legion or emigrated to distant shores. After a while he might have found himself. Unfortunately, hardly a frontier remains for these mixed-up kids who believe themselves to be misfits...
...eager group of Anniversary Scholars representing many distant parts of the U.S.A., of which we were very proud. In groups, we were invited to Dean Brown's house for tea or after dinner coffee. This was a white house on the Appian Way, that tiny street so unlike its namesake...
...from them; he was one of the first American artists to do so. He made drawing after drawing, from mere thumbnail sketches to stupendously elaborate perspective studies that include notes on such minutiae as eight cross sections of an oar from loom to blade, or the reflection of a distant bush in a ripple of water. To get the muscles of horse and man right, he modeled them...
...into the Arab fold, by which it has been ostracized since the Camp David agreement. But in spite of the losses incurred, neither side seems ready to make the concessions necessary to resolve the conflict. With the tragic end of Benyahia's mission last week, peace seemed as distant as ever...
...also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist Richard Condon's Prizzi family is not boroughs but planets distant from Mario Puzo's Corleones. These soldiers have no dignity and not a shred of redeeming decency. Don Corrado, with his "small, sharp eyes, as merry as ice cubes," is driven like all his men by pure avarice and a brutish lust for power. Prizzi and his top aides-loosely modeled...