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...Toshio, a successful but somewhat lonely novelist in his tifties, decides to visit one of the loves of his youth. Ueno Otoko. This visit awakens feelings of passion and remorse that had lain dormant through the 24 years since their separation; he had deserted the 16-year-old Otoko following her suicide attempt prompted by the death of their premature baby. During the visit, he meets Keiko, Otoko's young protege and lover, in whom he sees the full bloom of Otoko's lost beauty and passion. But aware of Otoko's past. Keiko sets out single mindedly to seduce...
...hunch above the now-clear table and poised his long, thin hands 15 inches above the solid oak at the same level where, if this were operating room number two of the Boston City Hospital on October 3, 1973, the womb of a 17 year-old woman would have lain open and bleeding. Edelin twisted his head 140 degrees backwards and fixed his eyes on a spot where, if this really were operating room number two, two clocks maybe two broken clocks--would have been mounted on the wall...
...where in 1842 he had gone as traveling artist and companion to a doughty Victorian tourist named Sir Thomas Phillips. The exotic vistas dumbfounded Dadd. "The excitement of these scenes," he wrote to a painter friend in England, "has been enough to turn the brain . . . and often I have lain down at night with my imagination so full of wild vagaries that I have really and truly doubted my own sanity . . . for I've got opened my mind...
...movie abandons all credibility in the final shootout. Reynolds, who has lain seriously wounded on the ground for many minutes, walks away alive from an entire posse...
Among her most valued treasures, Marlene Dietrich explained to the London Daily Express, is a bit of penicillin culture, the first ever developed by the late Sir Alexander Fleming. How did she win this memento? "When I saw how his discovery saved the lives of soldiers who had lain in the mud for days, I had to see him with my own eyes. A meeting was arranged-a dinner party, I cooked. We became very close friends," she explained. "Men are better than women," Marlene went on. "I fancy myself as probably having more of a male brain...