Word: escapees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"And I thought in New York people never got to know their neighbors," Varjak laughs in surprise one evening as Golightly steps gingerly from the fire escape into his apartment.
"We are friends, aren't we?" Golightly asks Varjak after she lays her elegantly coiffed head on his shoulder and goes to sleep. This in-through-the-fire-escape intimacy is the beginning of their very unusual romance.
So you do the only thing your silly ignorance will let you do to escape the momentary bind you're in: wave your hand in the general direction of the truth, tighten your shoulders vaguely and shrug, "oh, you know what I mean." Quickly, quickly, you pass the buck on...
The U.S. had recruited Barbie into its intelligence service and facilitated his escape to Bolivia. As a result of Ryan's report, the U.S. issued a formal apology to France.
THE GENTEEL OLD LADY EXPLAINS IT ALL in the early pages of FRAUD, Anita Brookner's new novel (Random House; $21). "She loves me, but I've taken away her life," she says of her daughter. "She will want to put me behind her, as I should have let her...