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Safe in harness, Sergeant Jenkins settled down in a U.S. Army dependent house in Yokohama with his wife Mania Etta, who is also 71, and as spry as her husband. Mrs. Jenkins helped put Yokohama orphanages back on their feet, spent most of her time working with the district Red Cross and raising funds for Japanese charities. When they learned that the Jenkinses were due for reassignment this month to the U.S., 1,400 Japanese friends signed a petition asking the Army to extend their tour. "We truly believe," they wrote, "that Mrs. Jenkins is one whom God himself...
...banned for criticizing the soap opera mania...
...married, had only one important love affair: with Louise Colet, a literary beauty with considerable experience as the mistress of authors. A large part of the affair, for Flaubert, seems to have consisted in writing her dismally joyless letters: "Maybe it is my heart that is impotent. This deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my own doubts." He kept going back to the theme: "I have never been able to give myself up to love; there is something so ridiculous about it. Sometimes I have wanted to please some woman, but I have been so struck...
Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel, the picture begins with a chance encounter on a Washington-to-New York train between, a tennis player (Farley Granger) and a wealthy, gabby ne'er-do-well (Robert Walker) with a touch of homicidal mania. Granger, in love with Socialite Ruth Roman, wants to rid himself of a faithless wife who is balking at a divorce; Walker would like nothing better than to see his own father dead. Aglow with enthusiasm, Walker proposes that they both commit murder, obliging each other with a friendly swap of victims so that...
...still thought he was being persecuted, and for a time he was hard to handle. But his wounds healed and he soon settled down. After three months, the major was alert and rational again, and reading the daily papers. He denied that he had ever suffered from a suicidal mania and refused to believe that he had shot himself...