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...full splendor. Forty-Niner pennants decorated her bulletin board, and Sunday afternoons were devoted to tracking down the Forty-Niner results, preempting all other television shows if the team happened to be buzzing among the New England television circuits. We shook our heads in amazement and sadness--Forty-Niner fever, worse than the fever that struck the miners over 100 years ago, had claimed another victim...
...there's an estimated $50 billion market of eager users. You can't blame the Cubans for Miami's woes. After all, who botched up the Bay of Pigs and then virtually guaranteed Soviet hegemony in Cuba? You can't blame Haitians for "America fever." After all, it's the same disease that emptied half of Ireland, Scandinavia, numerous German principalities, southern Italy and southern Poland onto these shores. There are social and historical patterns at work here. Please don't blame South Florida...
Funeral Games ends the trilogy. The novel opens in 323 B.C. with Alexander, 33, dying of swamp fever in a Babylonian palace. Renault guides us through the property, noting its special features and listing the previous owners. Her description could be a model for Beverly Hills realtors: "Nebuchadrezzar's bedroom, once ponderously Assyrian, had been Pesianized by successive kings from Kyros on. Kambyses had hung its walls with the trophies of conquered Egypt; Darius the Great had sheathed its columns with gold and malachite: Xerxes had pegged across one side the embroidered robe of Athene, looted from the Parthenon...
...identities? Reynolds, says Fisher, was neither sweet nor unaffected, and he had been unhappy with her almost from the beginning. He soon discovered that life with Liz, however, was an adventure for which he was unprepared: "Children, pets, servants, minor problems transformed into major tragedies, confusion, chaos, everything at fever pitch . . . Living with her was like living with a hurricane; each storm built in intensity, then subsided into an eerie calm as the eye passed, only to begin all over again...
House football fever. Catch...