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...JORGE MIRANDA San José, Costa Rica...
...People of the English working class, Clegg collects butterflies in his off-hours until he wins $200,000 in the football pool and can suddenly indulge his wildest fancies. He buys a remote country house, converts its vaulted cellar into a more or less gilded cage, and kidnaps Miranda, a vivacious London art student whose beauty has enraptured him from afar. "He is an empty space designed as a human," his astonished captive confides to her diary, "slow, unimaginative, lifeless, like zinc white...
...established at the outset when Clegg, in a van, stalks his victim toward a narrow byway where he can still her screams with chloroform. Wyler coolly, almost perversely, manipulates audience sympathy when Clegg tries to fob off an unexpected visitor while water seeps down from an upstairs bathroom where Miranda, lashed and gagged, has made the tub overflow. Later, she attacks her jailer with a shovel one dismal English night, a bid for freedom that ends as a muddy, bloody wrestling match. Though Author Fowles's harrowing final chapters are only capsuled on film, The Collector, even with...
...marshals are: Emily L. Deiman, of Warner House and New York City; Anne J. d'Harnoncourt, of Warner House and New York City; Catherine B. Fitch, of Jordan J and Nahant; Sarah Jackson, of Cabot Hall and Dover; and Miranda C. Sampsell, of Moors Hall and Chicago...
...production, the economy's overwhelming factor, climbed almost 5%, farm production 7%, manufacturing 11%, mining 25%, and construction a spectacular 75%. As the focus of the boom, Caracas is beginning to look like a Monopoly board near the end of a hot game. On Avenida Francisco Miranda, the Caracas branches of Balmain and Cartier, once exclusive hangouts for Venezuela's big rich, now thrive on a growing middle-class trade...