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...Long Way from Home. The glitter and glory of Washington seems light years away from the small Texas farm where Connally and seven brothers and sisters were raised. His father worked at what jobs he could get?tenant farmer, shopkeeper, butcher. The future Treasury Secretary walked barefoot to school. In 1932, his father bought a 1,000-acre farm, and by the time John was ready to go to the University of Texas, his family had the money to pay his tuition. He became class president as well as a leader in debating, acting and the speech club. During...
...many people, the bonds at present appear to be as sound an investment as any in the land. The stock market has been sluggish; the glitter of go-go mutual funds has long gone; bank interest rates on ordinary passbook savings accounts have been at 5% or lower. If the President's freeze cools inflation, the savings bond rates will look even better. Insecure about the future, many small investors-particularly middle-aged blue collar workers-are seeking financial refuge in the Government's securities...
Atop 5,820-ft. Mount Ulu Kali, the tropic air turns chill at night and lights from the distant capital of Kuala Lumpur glitter like diamonds. But visitors to the new 200-room Genting Highlands Hotel could hardly care less about the breathtaking view. Since the resort opened in May, thousands of eager customers have driven up a misty, winding mountain road for a headier kind of excitement-gambling in Malaysia's first legalized casino...
...does not explain the oddly abstract effect of such paintings. Nor does it account for the curious fact that Monet often painted from memory in a manner identical to his paintings from nature. The Houses of Parliament, London, with its diagonally surging, frayed green silhouette and glitter of thick silvery light, was produced at his house in France in 1905. For Monet's paintings become abstract to the extent that they accept light and color as absolutes...
...observation. But in Carnal Knowledge, their vision is scan deep. Save at the beginning, men and women address one another and are treated as mere organs. Coupling is viewed with righteous distaste. Sex, though essentially joyless as practiced by these characters, must be followed by punishment. The film does glitter with explicit wit, but far too often it is reduced to attitudes posing as people, glimpses pretending to be insights...