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...CRUMB: No. He was from very reserved farm people. When I would come home to visit after I left home he would say, "It's good to see you Robert," and shake hands...
...Pine's Purple House was released in the fall of 2000, along with two other books, and by June 2003, the company was doing well enough for her husband to quit his job and for the whole family to move from Texas to their dream home, on a farm in Kentucky...
...also has Australia, specifically a vast sheep farm near Canberra owned by Harry and Liz Barton. Liz's mother BB (short for Betty Beauchamp) lives on the place, growing more gaga and malevolent by the day. Worse, Younger Sister Josie arrives from New York City for a Christmas visit, along with her son Alex and her still smoldering passion for Liz's husband. Naturally, family feuds overshadow all those exotic wallabies, kangaroos and kookaburras. But not before Murdoch turns a few deft landscapes and some surprisingly sympathetic portraits of the men trapped in a female fantasy...
...every reason to be grateful for miracles. Helplessly wedged between wooden slats in mud and water that reached up to his neck, Gómez had been lost and rediscovered three times in the wake of the avalanche. His hair and mustache matted with muck, Gómez talked as four farm workers from a neighboring town cut away the restraining slats and removed a bamboo pole that the survivor was clutching with all his strength. Next to him was the body of his landlady, who had died, Gómez said, "about an hour ago." It took three hours to rescue...
...Australian government official, much of the ill-will arising from contract negotiations would disappear. Cashed-up China can afford to invest directly. But it hasn't yet done so in a big way, although it has assets of around $A2.2 billion in resources, real estate, power stations and farms. Still, China's buying potential elicits murmurs about "selling off the farm," an echo of grumbles that were once directed at the Americans and Japanese...