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...Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a Long Island, N.Y., housewife, casually answered her door and unwittingly stepped into one of the most sensational crimes of the decade. Standing on her front porch, Mary Jo was shot in the face by Amy Fisher, her husband Joey's 17-year-old mistress. Fisher, quickly dubbed the "Long Island Lolita" by the New York tabloids, ended up serving nearly seven years in prison for reckless assault. Joey, a 36-year-old auto-bodyshop owner, went to jail for four months for statutory rape...
...finds is prone to flooding from the sea. In her attempt to hold back the tide, Huppert rallies local villagers to build a barrier against the ocean. It's a Sisyphean task that sets her against colonial functionaries who have designs on her property, and a rapacious tycoon, Monsieur Jo (Randal Douc), a Parisian-educated Sino-Khmer, whose efforts to take land from the locals are as unrelenting as his pursuit of Huppert's teenaged daughter Suzanne (Astrid Berges-Frisbey). In their impoverished state, the women have more in common with their Khmer neighbors than the linen-suited colonial...
...Stradivarius, and I will go further still ..." To create his endive sorbet with coquelicot vinegar, artichoke and truffle raviole, or cinnamon-grilled leek velouté, Gagnaire draws from the 1,700 vegetable and fruit varieties grown in nearby Carrières-sur-Seine by renowned market gardener Joël Thiébault...
...hope that those with an overabundance of "things" will recognize that because of a pervasive sense of greed and entitlement, many have lost all they worked for. Maybe as a nation we will develop a conscience and realize the harm we've done. Mary Jo Lisborg, Fayetteville...
...hope that those with an overabundance of "things" will recognize that because of a pervasive sense of greed and entitlement, many have lost all they worked for. Maybe as a nation we will develop a conscience and realize the harm we've done. Mary Jo Lisborg, FAYETTEVILLE...