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Harvard's Croquet Club conquered St. John's Last Sunday at Palm Beach capturing the National Collegiate Croquet Championship...
...expected to win," says Karlock of this year's Palm Beach triumph...
...GOOD THINGS about the movie are Fanny Ardant and Nestor Almendros. The latter produces some gorgeous black-and-white footage, using the backdrop of grungy Marseilles streets, sleazy nightclubs and palm-lined plazas in eternal rain to make for an atmosphere at once sinister and lyrical. The movie works better on a purely visual level than on any other; as a series of stills rather than a "moving picture." Whether one is willing to sit through two hours' worth of photos, even of southern France, is, of course, debatable...
...afternoon, as the sky began to sparkle and warm, the entourage gathered for a tour of authors' houses. The last was Hemingway's, surrounded by garden, inundated by cats, palm brushed. "Did you notice this fireplace is totally off center? As so many of us are in Key West," said Guide Larry Harvey, famous locally for his lyrical delivery of such unlikely information as "Some of us do recall the great star who sat in this chair, the late Franchot Tone...
...third Tuesday of every month in the fall and winter of 1980, a bizarre rendezvous allegedly took place in Washington, D.C. A Navy officer in a plain civilian suit carried a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist into the parlor of "Madame Zodiac," psychic and palm reader. By looking at top-secret photographs and charts, the clairvoyant attempted to predict the movements of Soviet submarines off the East Coast. Madame Zodiac's payment: $400 cash...