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...least for John. They become an odd trio a house of claustrophobia. John soon realizes that he is sharing a situation with his wife, not a life. Though she is desperate for a child, Annie's magnificent obsession and only priority is Helen. John takes to tippling. Tempers flare and caustic words are spoken, especially by Annie, who possesses, as she admits, "a mouthful of boils...
...cost of living increase, because there won't be any increase in the cost of living." It would be risky to assume that this happy state will indefinitely continue: there have been too many periods in the past when inflation dwindled, only to flare up again...
...nosed into Falkland Sound (now known to the Argentines as the Straits of San Carlos) between East and West Falkland. The aim was to provoke Argentine fire in order to gain knowledge of hostile troop positions. A Lynx helicopter was launched from the frigate, and machine guns and a flare were fired, but there was no Argentine response...
...extra day in space probably added significantly to the mission's cost -NASA would not say by how much - but it provided 20 hours more to collect scientific data. During that extra time, Columbia's instruments monitored a surprise eruption of a huge solar flare, a fiery burst of hot gases from the sun's surface. Such plumes often reach thousands of miles into space and give off a flood of charged particles that can play devilish tricks on spacecraft. In 1979, Skylab, NASA'S abandoned space workshop, came crashing prematurely to earth after its orbit...
...earth type who has realized the capitalist dream in the form of his own cheese factory outside Parma in northern Italy. The first hint of conflict s straightforward and understandable enough: Primo's leftist-leaning only child Giovanni (Riki Tognazzi) presents him with a birthday gift of a flare-gun and binoculars, accompanied by a note deriding Primo's latest purchase, a yacht Visibly stung by the rebuke, Primo ascends to his factory's roof to survey his domain. In the distance he sees Giovanni's red sports car being forced off the road and the boy bundled into...