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...Biloxi Blues in Fish Creek, Wis., which Simon came to see. Ellen, 29, a choreographer and aspiring screenwriter, lives in Toronto with her husband and Simon's only grandchild, Andrew, who turns six this week. When she completed her first script last fall, she sent it to her father???and to Mason?for comment...
Playing the part of pacesetter is nothing new to Sagan. While growing up in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst section, the son of a U.S.-born mother and a Russian-immigrant father???a garment cutter who rose to factory manager?he was already thinking of the heavens while other children were preoccupied with stickball and marbles. He recalls: "I remember seeing the stars and asking my friends what they were. They told me that they were lights...
Rachelle Resnick, 27, a San Francisco school-bus driver, counts herself fortunate to have bought?with much help from her father???a two-bedroom house that she candidly describes as "a little nothing." It cost $48,500, and she will have to spend $5,000 or so to repair termite damage. But had she waited, it almost surely would have gone higher. The house sold in June 1976 for $28,000, and has since been resold four times by four separate speculators, none of whom lived...
Jefferson is a formidably learned man with a meticulous and graceful mind. The tall, red-haired Virginian was elected a delegate to Congress last year?when just 32 and only recently a father???and he first appeared in Philadelphia riding in a phaeton and accompanied by two black servants. John Adams may have regretted Jefferson's silence during debate, but he found him so quick in smaller councils that he was charmed. The two have formed an extraordinary partnership: Adams arguing the case for independence in the day-to-day clutches of debate, and Jefferson formulating the argument in private...
...come to laymen in a matter of years. Others recoil from the fawning attitudes of lay Catholics, who treat them like embryonic saints. Asks Los Angeles Psychologist Carlo Weber, a former Jesuit: "Do you know how it feels to be spoken to in a set way: 'Yes, Father . . . good Father???so nice to have you here, Father'? Rotten, that's how. Nothing could be more deleterious to a personality...