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...turns out that Sebastian knows of his wife's terminal condition and believes he is keeping it a secret from her. He does this by being crotchety and cavalierly asking Lydia to fetch his drinks, his food, and anything else that can be hand-carried...
...state of Maine is currently inventorying some 3,350 islands off its coast. A Boston cab driver who migrated to Cutler, Me., in 1966, bought a 25-acre island near by for $2,500. Today, with a cabin and a fresh-water spring, it will fetch up to $40,000. The 2,500-acre Bartlett's Island was once a village of 300 souls. It was bought by a radio writer for $68,000. After several lucrative changes of ownership, David and Margaret Rockefeller recently became the barons of Bartlett for $750,000, a cost that marked...
What does concern him is that Alfredo's head will fetch a bounty of $10,000 and that Bennie's girl friend (Isela Vega) has just wrapped up an affair with Alfredo, who really seems to have got around. Alfredo has also impregnated the daughter of some big back-country honcho (Emilio Fernandez), who happens to be the fellow looking to have him done in. Bennie does not find this out until practically the last scene, when he has eliminated a lot of middlemen, mostly by gunfire. For the balance of the action, blistering jealousy and outright greed...
...long ago, say ten years -when one could with perfect ease walk into the Met, the Wallace Collection or the Museum of Modern Art and spend a day communing with paintings without once reflecting on how much they might have cost or what they were now likely to fetch. But given the relentless publicity about art prices and auction triumphs-even when one knows how rigged, distorted and manipulated the actual events and statistics have been-it requires the discipline of an anchorite to do that today. Thus it is hard to leaf through the pages of magazines like...
...resistance activities. Henry Kissinger seeks only a world of stability which excludes revolutionary change, and he has bombed little children in pursuit of his goal. Le Duc Tho refused his half of the prize, explaining that the war had not ended. Kissinger sent one of his subordinates to fetch his half...