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...Then Dolores began to fuss incessantly with her feet. The Levangs thought they had arranged, through the center, for an outside service called Happy Feet to provide pedicures. But Happy Feet never received the contract. (The center's operator, Alterra, based in Milwaukee, Wis., insists that its manager did fax it in.) For eight months no one cut Dolores' nails, which grew so long that they curled over the tops of her toes and began to dig into the skin underneath...
...production so bizarre that it inspired a fascinating documentary (Fax Barh's 1991 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse) and a full-length study (Peter Cowie's new The Apocalypse Now Book), the quality of the resulting film could be irrelevant. But despite Coppola's protestation, Apocalypse Now is a movie--the most ambitious, artful attempt to capture on film the sundering trauma of American soldiers in Southeast Asia. Like any movie, it can be assembled into any shape, any length, that its powerful auteur deems suitable. So last year Coppola went back into the jungle of his Vietnam...
...that required convincing the Department of Defense to sell 84 housing "units" (later transformed into 42 apartments and 12 spacious family homes) on the Chanute base, which had just closed--no small task. But after two years of inconclusive weekly calls to the Pentagon, Eheart sent a fax to President Clinton. Nine days later, a cadre of federal officials visited Rantoul to negotiate a price for the property--$215,000 for 22 acres...
...half hours to a prison near Bordeaux. Though his physical appearance had changed dramatically in his years on the lam - he had lost 50 pounds and whacked off his long hair and beard - his fingerprints hadn't. In Philadelphia the long-suffering DiBenedetto received a fax from the Justice Department...
...phone and fax, DiBenedetto pursued leads through England, back to Ireland and then to Wales. It took four years for another break; again, it was from Weaire. He spotted Einhorn in the Trinity cafeteria. Confronted, Einhorn insisted his name was Ben Moore. Weaire ran for the phone and called DiBenedetto. An extradition treaty was in place by then, but by the time Irish police moved in, the Unicorn was gone. Again...