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Beginning on the outskirts of the city, seemingly every knoll and grassy patch sprouts a grove of flagpoles with pale green, blue and white banners blazing a trail to the Munich Games. On the horizon, the bright blue Bavarian sky is pierced by the futuristic Olympic Tower, a 943-ft. skymark for the Games. Below, sprawling over 740 undulating acres, is the Olympic Park, a verdant retreat with a boating lake, broad tree-lined walkways and facilities for more than two-thirds of the 195 events* on the Olympic agenda. Three of the largest venues are partially under one "roof...
...book was The Pale Horse, a vintage Christie whodunit (1961) in which the villain plots to kill some factory workers with thallium, a tasteless, soluble and highly toxic substance that had never before been used on humans as a poison in Britain. The "fellow" was Graham Frederick Young, 24, who did precisely what Dame Agatha predicted could be done. Last month he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering two of his fellow workers at a small photographic-equipment factory in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, by dosing their tea and coffee with thallium...
...Allen made his debut as a performer at a dim Greenwich Village boîte called the Duplex. It was a fairly unusual première: few audiences, after all, have ever seen a man turn pale green every night. "It was the worst year of my life," admits Woody. "I'd feel this fear in my stomach every morning, the minute I woke up, and it would be there until I went on at 11 o'clock at night. I was trying to be cerebral. I was writing for dogs with high-pitched ears...
...winter's day at nine o'clock in the morning, I slipped coming downstairs. A young stranger caught me by the elbow. His hand was strong and full of restraint. I saw short fingers with flat nails. Pale fingers with soft black down on the knuckles." Thus Hannah, a pretty young student at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, met a geologist-to-be named Michael Gonen. This novel by the popular Israeli writer Amos Oz is Hannah's first-person account of her ten-year marriage to Michael. The sentences fall like the drip drip drip...
...sight calculated to make a revenue agent cry. The Roman nobleman, due to be tapped for several years' back taxes, welcomed the man from il Fisco to a scene of genteel poverty. Instead of valuable paintings on the apartment walls, there were only pale squares. The closet held a couple of threadbare suits. The prince offered the agent a Nazionale cigarette from a Marlboro package, explaining that he could no longer afford the real thing but had to keep up appearances...