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Moreover, they were preparing for their wedding tonight atop the high-test temple at the ruins of Palenque, to be performed by an ancient Maya priest amid jungle hybiscus and candelas and incense. As they drank their liquados they watched the native boys at work with butterfly nets. Sam had promised them two pesos each for chickadees to set free cheep cheep into the night sky when the sacred moment came. So far the boys had corralled only 174, or $27.84 American money's worth, but a big push had been organized for today and the boys hoped...
...Maya curer of seventy-two years and no teeth, bolstered for the sacrilege by many chill beers the cabdriver has put in him, awaits the couple. 343 chickadees and a pigeon chirrup away and 3 unfortunately die of heart failure when Girl and Alfred come snooping around their wicker cages...
...trying to figure out whether once he has paid for the wedding they will have enough pesos to buy gas to get back to California. Merilee beams at the toothless priest who is gumming the consonants in his chants, and suddenly through an access of amazing grace, she comprehends Maya. Candles flame, incense smells, Girl pants, chickadees are released and a pigcon and the entire entourage totters dizzily down 192 steps without casualty, preceded by the pimp carrying the still-chanting priest...
...weeks ago the campaign reached an unusual pitch in Moscow. At a government-sponsored press conference in Friendship House, a panel of prominent Jews appeared before foreign newsmen to explain an anti-Zionist statement that had been signed by 52 of them, including Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. Their statement declared that Zionism "expressed the chauvinist views and racist ravings of the Jewish bourgeoisie...
...moreover, was as straight as a line of type. After shedding his first wife of ten years, Barnes married Patricia Winckley, a lithe balletomane who looked like a swan on leave from St. James's Park. In New York, the Barneses and their two children, Christopher, 7, and Maya, 5, settled into a sprawling pad on Riverside Drive. The overachiever brushed up his diction, stiffened his self-assurance and pressed...