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...swallowed r. The Big House is both elegant and salty. In an illuminated, glass-paneled display case is Rose Kennedy's collection of more than 200 costumed dolls from all over the world. Inside the front door is a hooked "welcome" rug and a doorstop of a bearded fisherman dressed in a yellow sou'wester; the furniture is mostly Early American and 18th century English, bought by Rose Kennedy more than 30 years ago. Hung on the wall are Currier & Ives prints and a Grandma Moses. Inscribed photographs are scattered around the sitting room, in the place...
...fisherman squinted through the hard Mediterranean light and bent his head toward the cluster of chattering tourists in the town square. "At least," he said, "they're better than prisoners...
Trout & Needlepoint. In his rare moments of repose. Beedle Smith was a warm man of catholic tastes. He was an admitted raconteur, a passionate hunter and trout fisherman (he made his own skillfully fashioned rods), a talented chess and bridge player, and a voracious reader who wolfed Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad along with the military classics. He was also an unabashed needlepoint craftsman and the grower of prize roses. But it was his job, and especially his military job, that always absorbed him. His merciless schedule eventually broke Smith's health. Last week Beedle Smith died...
...carpenter, not a politician.'" said Dominguez last week after sailing to Florida with 16 others. A second refugee, Day Laborer Gabino Mendiola, 39, confirmed the story: "If you do not join the militia, you cannot get a job." Added Jose Aurelio Lechuga Villanueva, 53, a fisherman for 36 years: "A fisherman cannot live. I used to be able to sell fish freely. Now everything goes to the Agrarian Reform at their price. You have nothing left with which to eat." One haggard mother recently landed at Key West in a small sailboat with her two children...
...going good," says Manuel, the gored bullfighter in The Undefeated, "I didn't have any luck. That was all." "Never fight under me," says Colonel Cantwell in Across the River and Into the Trees. "I'm cagey. But I'm not lucky." Even Santiago, the old fisherman in The Old Man and the Sea, says, "I have no luck any more." Under the brilliant physical surface in Hemingway there was always the metaphysical brooding, the glancing reflections on a destiny his characters keep telling themselves not to think about...