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...characters from his past have been summoned for the reading of the will. They make up a nicely varied assortment: two ex-wives-one of them an old dreadnought of an actress superbly played by Françoise Rosay-three mistresses and three men, including a dyspeptic theater critic, jealous of Antoine's sexual and professional success...
...crisis is rooted in Lebanon's volatile ethnic makeup. Roughly half of its 2,700,000 citizens are Christian, half Moslem. The Lebanese, jealous of their position as the eastern Mediterranean's pacemakers in commerce and communications, have kept the ethnic conglomerate intact for 26 years by means of a scrupulously observed gentleman's agreement. It provides that the President of the republic-currently Charles Helou-should always be a Maronite Catholic, the Premier a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shia Moslem. Parliament is apportioned on a 6-to-5 ratio favoring Christians...
...very well received. At the time of his death, two days after the publication of the novel, he could hardly be considered a resounding popular success. In her notes to the recent collection of his writing, Long Time Coming, Mimi remarks that he was perhaps a bit jealous of Bob Dylan, who was several years younger and was making it in a much bigger...
ESTRANGE ??? actions of ???? dents became overwhelmingly ?? Even those who continued to present a normal facade to friends felt increasingly isolated. Two of the Cliffies interviewed said they dated a lot. One said, "I went out so much that other girls were jealous of me. But they didn't know how lonely I was. Once I thought of myself lying asleep and I laughed. I thought, 'Poor girl, nobody cares about you and you're not even awake enough to care about yourself...
...Howell has responded to Nunn's charges by firing off a few of her own. She claims that Nunn, the state's first Republican Governor in 20 years, is jealous of her program's success and trying to improve his party's fortunes at her expense. Her riposte does little to blunt the thrust of Nunn's original accusation, for her family's seignorial attitude toward the people in its domain is evidence enough of its political power. "These are my folks around here," says Mrs. Howell. "They need help." The people of Breathitt...