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...moved to Fort Worth. They kept Lee with them, sent the two older boys to a Mississippi military academy. That marriage also was brief. In 1948 Ekdahl filed for divorce, charged that his wife nagged him constantly about money, hit and scratched him, threw a bottle and a cookie jar at him, once nearly crowned him with a vase...
...tells the predatory Ann in an intentionally farcical manner that he lover her. Earlier in the act, the confrontation between an American billionaire, Hector Malone, and his rebellious son is also performed with broad, almost burlesque humor. But the Malones' argument forms a self-contained episode and does not jar the audience...
...feature of the 1963 outbreaks was that four of them, causing nine deaths, were from commercially packed foods. So far as was known, most cases in recent years had come from home canning of fruits, vegetables or mushrooms, which had not been adequately boiled before the housewife sealed the jar. In an airless, airtight container, the bacteria multiply and secrete what is reputedly the deadliest poison known. One ounce, it is estimated, could kill 200 million people...
...This switch on Freudian analysis involves more than just turning his readers into a collective listening analyst. For Genet it means tarring them with the same brush as himself. His writings abound in emotional traps that lure a reader along the path of natural human feeling only to jar him with some small monstrosity at the end. In Our Lady of the Flowers, for example, Divine's despair is so eloquently described that the reader is moved to the kind of sympathy one feels for an aging spinster who is losing her looks. Then, with a sneer, Genet reminds...
...double purpose of sucking in hard money and keeping down local pressure for consumer goods. The 40 foreign branches of Poland's Pekao organization let outsiders order for Poland delivery to their relatives and friends. The insiders get scarce luxuries that range from Elizabeth Arden creams ($1 a jar) and Gillette Blue Blades ($5 for 100) to baby pigs ($16 for two) and Simca autos ($1,950). Pekao's take from this sanctioned black market traffic is estimated to be $40 million a year...