Word: er
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less head of a middle-aged man are not necessarily funny. Nor is the scene in which a couple dickers with a sleazy film producer over a role in a pornographic film. As the scene unfolds, it becomes clear that the female in the dirty movie will have to, er, "do it with a monkey." But surprise, kids, the couple agrees to the contract, and the twist is revealed; the woman won't be in the film, rather, the actress will be their ten-year-old daughter. You could split your sides laughing, but you probably...
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez ∙ Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙ The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving...
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez ∙ Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙ The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving
Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. was one of the most mysterious figures in the civil rights protests of the 1960s. A ne'er-do-well and braggart, he drifted from job to job, working as an ambulance driver, bartender and nightclub bouncer. But he also was the FBI'S most important informant on the Ku Klux Klan's violent activities in Alabama. Rowe provided the bureau with information on the Klansmen's beating of black Freedom Riders at a Birmingham bus depot in 1961. He tipped off agents about a bomb shortly before it went...
...addition, the destructive effects of Belgian colonialism on tribal life made a lasting impression on the son of a Polish patriot who had been jailed and exiled for his activities against Russian imperialism. During an overland trek from Matadi to Kinshasa, the Diary notes, he "met an off[ic]er of the State inspecting; a few minutes afterwards saw at a camp-[in]g place the dead body of a Backongo...