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...feed at once ..."). Wallace was a drama critic for one of the seedier London newspapers until he arose during an idiotic stage performance and screamed curses. At liberty, he is asked by a terminally ill goddaughter to find out whether a moody 15-year-old boy, Wallace's godson, really has a powerful healing gift. The lad, it appears, lays on not merely hands but sexual parts to effect his cures and in this way seems to have worked wonders with the god-daughter, an elderly gay houseguest and a sick mare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIPPO CRITICAL | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...were operating against a society that made an effort to deny us and deceive us," added Roy Godson, an associate professor of government at Georgetown and author of numerous intelligence-related articles...

Author: By Jeff Beals, | Title: CIA Releases Classified Soviet Policy Analyses | 12/3/1994 | See Source »

...crew of aFree French warship in Boston Harbor. For thisevent, from a record, I learned to sing "LeFiacre." Later, I corresponded with one sailor ashis maraine-de-guerre(godmother-of-war)--until French censors found, inone of his letters to me, a snapshot of his ship.For this lapse, my godson-of-war did some time inthe brig...

Author: By Sylvia Maynard, | Title: Class of '44 Grads Reflect on Impact of War on College Life | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...than the Mr. Steven of the novel. Emma Thompson, with a profusion of facial expressions ranging from the ironic to the irate, however, seems to have retained all the personality of Miss Kenton with fewer words, and Hugh Grant is admirably genuine in his role as Lord Darlington's godson...

Author: By Bernadette A. Meyler, | Title: Of Lords and Lost Glory | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

Surprise. Double Cross (Warner Books; 366 pages; $22.95), written by Giancana's brother Chuck and godson Sam, says that is exactly what happened. Chuck Giancana played the role of underworld Candide, charting his brother's rise as the most powerful Mob boss west of the Mississippi and taking note of his snuff work for the CIA. "It's beautiful," says Sam. "The Outfit even has the same enemies as the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did J.F.K. Really Commit Suicide? | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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