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Pennywise, a brightly dressed clown, beguiles the young passers-by. The lucky ones elude the creature. The others are never seen again -- alive. This is obviously not your average Ringling Bros. fool with bulbous nose and orange sideburns. When it shucks off its costume, it resembles a spider. Or a crawling eye. Or a mummy. Its breath is foul, its eyes are mere holes, and its diet consists of human entrees. Pennywise's address is the sewers of Derry, Me., but the monster is only renting there. Its permanent home is a far stranger dwelling: the mind of Stephen Edwin...
...citizens stand their ground. Then a middle-aged man has a seizure watering his lawn. The hose spurts above him with sexual abandon, and a mongrel dog lunges on the misdirected spray. Lynch follows this with a close-up of insects teeming in the rich grass. He sticks your nose down into the nest, and the theater fills with brittle bug noises...
...triumph as often as he has, Tisch has thumbed his nose at conventional wisdom. He buys companies or stocks when they are wildly unpopular and shuns anything that is remotely in vogue. "I'm always looking for companies that have real value," he says, "companies that we would be proud to own." Says E. John Rosenwald, an executive at Bear Stearns, a New York brokerage firm, and a Tisch family friend: "He's not a herd follower." Last year, for example, Tisch bought seven oil supertankers for a fraction of what it would have cost to build them...
...talking." Moreover, "that line has got me out of a corner many times." Directly, Bill Boley demonstrated what he could do with his voice. He did dog sniffs, dog barks, dog pants, peacock calls, door slams ("The shut is a gun sound. I let it go through the nose a little bit") and window blinds being raised and lowered. He did everything...
...Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, the Soviet Union saw political instability on its border and the danger of unfriendly regimes coming to power. So Moscow, thumbing its nose at world opinion, moved in with tanks and paratroopers. In the other cases, there was either an act or an accusation of spying. The Soviets are preoccupied with espionage in a way that is difficult for Americans to understand. As custodians of a closed and paranoid political system, they are obsessed with protecting their own secrets and finding out those of their enemies...