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...story begins when David, a native of Portland, Oregon, moves to New York in an effort to become a professional illustrator. During one of his trips home he meets Minnie, a tall gal with lots of personality who currently has a boyfriend, but doesn't let that stop her from being wooed by the dorky but charming Chelsea. Nor does David resist sleeping with Paprika, one of his housemates. Their post-coital repartee sums up the attitude of everyone in the book, a peculiar mix of promiscuity and devotion. Chelsea: "So, uh, you're not like really in love with...
...Inman's and Ada's stories run on parallel tracks: he warring, getting wounded and walking homeward, she fighting to survive in a mean economic and political climate. A proper lady with few practical skills, Ada is saved by the arrival of the can-do mountain gal Ruby Thewes (Renee Zellweger). As Ada passes her Ruby Thewes days struggling to keep her farm from failing and the local bully Teague (Ray Winstone) from pressing his lurid attentions on her, Inman meets all manner of strangers--good witches and bad, a rogue (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a young widow (Natalie Portman...
...Carol ?Kansas? Richman (Ella Raines), the right-hand gal who?s obviously in love with her boss, has a deep Nancy Drew streak. She suspects that the people who saw Scott and the woman have been paid or intimidated to keep quiet; her mission is to try scaring or seducing them into talking. Her first mark is the bartender. She sits at the bar silently for several nights and spooks him into first planning to push her off the el platform and then fatally rushing into traffic...
...track-maintenance-crew member Alan Powell of his first bobsled ride. Or join up for a program at the park's ski jumps, among the highest-altitude ramps in the world. In the summer, ice is traded for wheels on bobsleds, and aerial skiers land in a 750,000-gal. "splash" pool...
...enchant him with her caddying skills? Was she the first gal who got his Fuzzy Zoeller jokes? One can only speculate as to what really attracted TIGER WOODS, 27, to Swedish former swimsuit model ELIN NORDEGREN, 23. Woods proposed to Nordegren at a game reserve in South Africa last week, where he played in the Presidents Cup. Sport's most eligible bachelor met his fiance two years ago while she was an au pair for a fellow golfer. Around that time, Woods' father predicted his son wouldn't marry before age 30, saying, "A wife can sometimes be a deterrent...