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...dawn, fishermen who want their coffee at 7 a.m., gossipy locals who are afraid of the evil eye, and a partner who goes by the nickname O Lados (the Oily One). In the end, O Lados gets his just desserts, and so do we, in the form of a generous appendix of Stone's favorite Greek recipes...
...apartment living room. Almost every night, we get the pleasure of seeing the person from whom we are subletting stumbling through the room late at night to connect her computer to the phone line or to make tea. If it hadn’t been for a generous friend staying in Washington who let me borrow a surplus mattress from the dorm room he’s renting for the summer, I’d be sleeping directly on the floor. This summer’s hardships, however, are just the latest in a series of bad experiences...
...company, owned by media tycoon Leo Kirch, went bust. Middelhoff also persuaded Bertlesmann to buy the giant U.S. publisher Random House for $1.2 billion. His contract, reportedly paying him j8 million a year, was extended for five years only last month. (His payout is expected to be suitably generous...
...William Blake that the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. He must, for it is his nature, document his preoccupation with protuberances: the meditation comparing English bosoms to Italian abbondanzas, the tribute to "Anita Ekberg's gravity-defying / conically capacious dairying facilities." But he is as generous to other, minor bards as he is to himself, including long excerpts of movie critiques from the likes of the Kankakee Clarion, the Chico News and Review...
Another willing older worker is Frank Dillon, 65, of Concord, Calif. After 37 years as a marketing executive at PG&E, Dillon enjoys a generous pension benefit and has personal assets of more than $1 million. He spent his first golden year exactly as he had envisioned--reading, playing some golf and, one by one, knocking off several odd jobs and improvements such as building a deck at his home. But then something he had not envisioned intruded on years of planning: he got bored. So he took a part-time job supervising tee times at a nearby golf club...