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...Gustave Flaubert's story A Simple Heart, an old French woman pines for a beloved nephew, a sailor who has disappeared in Cuba. Later she acquires a parrot. Because it comes from the Americas, it reminds her of him. When the parrot dies, she has it stuffed and set in her room among her items of religious veneration. On her deathbed, she has a vision of heaven. The clouds part to reveal an enormous parrot...
...Deng Zhifang has kept an extremely low profile. And if history can offer any guide, that is a tactic his siblings would be well advised to mimic. During the last major power shift in China, Mao Zedong's family plummeted from privilege. His daughter was retired into obscurity, his nephew was thrown into jail, and his wife Jiang Qing, implacable enemy of Deng, was arrested, tried and convicted of treason for her role as ringleader of the Gang of Four in the brutal Cultural Revolution. She spent 13 years in prison, where she committed suicide...
...renegade and he is dismissed." The announcement followed assurances by South Korea Monday that it will send food aid and nuclear technicians to the North despite feelings that Pyongyang was behind the shooting in Seoul this weekend of a prominent North Korean defector. Lee Han-young, a nephew of the first wife of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il, was reported to be brain-dead after two gunmen shot him in the head outside a friend's apartment Saturday. Police found two shells at the site from the weapon of choice for North Korean agents, a Belgian Browning pistol. While...
...straight man to his sidekick, Cheeta. More than a dozen chimpanzees took the role, and the last was genial Jiggs. Born in Liberia, he was brought to the U.S. by Hollywood trainer Tony Gentry along with sister Susie--another Cheeta portrayer--who died last month at 64. Gentry's nephew Dan Westfall, a theater performer, inherited the pair and built a facility on his property to house them. The scene-stealing siblings were in more than 15 Tarzan movies, and as a specialty, Westfall says, "Jiggs would always grin with his upper lip above his mouth.'' In retirement, Jiggs...
...eyed virtue, Caselotti placed a wishing well in her front yard and a recording of "I'm Wishing" on her telephone answering machine. The 80-year-old singer, who died at home Sunday after a battle with cancer, "was just that wonderful, cheery, little lady," said Roy Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney. Caselotti possessed a similar innocence about the outside world when she was picked at the age of 17 to bring Snow White to life for a whirlwind adventure with Seven Little Dwarfs and an evil stepmother. In a 1993 interview, Caselotti, who was educated in a convent...