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...help them. There are almost no social agencies with government money. The public shelters are like jails. Since street life is hard, the kids get down to the basic fact of finding money for food. The boys deal drugs or panhandle-even become male prostitutes. The girls become whores." nan...
...best people of grass-roots Montana. There were ranchers, farmers, businessmen, three professors, five ministers, 24 attorneys, a beekeeper, a retired FBI agent. Nineteen were women, most of them housewives and educators. The oldest delegate was Lucille Speer, 73, a retired librarian; the youngest was a graduate student, Mae Nan Robinson, 24. What they all had in common was virtually complete ignorance of the art of constitution writing and a somewhat unfounded self-assurance...
...voyeurism. One night his wife Lisa (Joanna Shimkus) discovers him spying on a teen-age swim party and promptly takes off for her sister's. Alren makes several attempts to lure her back, each stymied by Lisa's obstinacy or the pseudopsychological prattering of her sister Nan (Elizabeth Ashley), who has, it seems, a good deal more than an amateur analyst's interest in her brother-in-law. She makes frequent trips to his beachside bachelor lair. At one point she practically unravels her bathing suit in an attempt to interest him. He remains impassive throughout...
...still being rebuilt, army men joined forces with old party cadres to squeeze out the young radicals. The result: 15 of 19 first secretaries of existing provincial Communist Party committees are army commanders or army political commissars, including those in the strategically important cities of Nanking, Wuhan, Tsi-nan and Mukden...
Aranson seems almost to have been born on the wharves of Nan tucket. He walks with sea legs. The floorboards become a deck, rolling under his feet with the long, steady rhythm of an ocean swell. There are fogs, stars, spars and billowing sails in his voice...