Word: moonlighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Restless, Chiang Ch'ing arose, beckoned me to follow, and motioned her bodyguard to lead the way through the tall doors that opened in to the pitch-black night. Obviously perplexed, [the aide] reached for his flashlight and plunged ahead into the humid night air and faint moonlight. She followed him and I her. Chiang Ch'ing had deliberately led us out of reach of the indoor microphones [two had been placed before each of them to record the interviews...
...debt of $23,700, most of which he charged while he had a $20,000-a-year job in the marketing division of Lockheed. Laid off in 1972, he now earns $12,000 annually in the management training division of Georgia Power Co. He has been forced to moonlight by teaching part time at a community college, and to make his eldest son pay $135 a month toward the groceries. Says the debtor: "It took time for the kids to understand that we couldn't charge things. My wife was resentful because I was the one who had been...
...erotic sophistication. He orders a bottle of wine to demonstrate, "I give great French." Hilly smiles knowingly. These two soul mates settle down to giggling over their bubbly and bunking down together. As George prepares to enjoy himself, he happens to glance out the window and, instead of moonlight, sees a corpse, falling from the top of the train...
...sexy straight through Armageddon. Louis Malle, using Belmondo's steeliness for its full impact, gives us ten long minutes of his cool gaze at the opening of Le Voleur. (This is an apparently neglected film that resurfaced this summer at the Telluride Film Festival.) In the dark, eerie moonlight we watch the burglar, Belmondo, crowbar his way into a ritzy, turn-of-the-century mansion. You have never seen such gaudy art nouveau furniture as lies within this house. And Belmondo sees no reason to pamper the stuff; he cracks open cabinets and bashes his cane through display cases. "This...
...Bread, Hashish and Moonlight" Qabbani attacks the fatalistic attitude reflected in the other poems. He dispels as an illusion the belief the fulfillment in death can substitute for fulfillment in life. As a result he is forced to dismiss his countrymen bitterly and absolutely...