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...While Papa nursed hopes of eventually sharing in Lacoste's inheritance, Euphemie had to endure her husband's passes at the maids and, worse still, the touch of his festering body. The consequence was arsenic in the soup. It remains open to question whether Euphemie put it there (she was acquitted) because Lacoste often dosed himself with the arsenical compounds then prescribed for venereal disease. Still, Lacoste's death smacks sufficiently of retributive justice to meet the criteria for classic murder...
...says good-naturedly. Why so? Jones, 46, is fascinated with his role of Oedipus Rex and the adaptation of Sophocles' play selected for the production. For Translator John Lewin, says Jones, "the gut of the play is the discovery that Oedipus' mama agreed with Oedipus' papa to put Oedipus on a hillside at age three or four weeks, with spikes in his feet, to die. It becomes a play about parental betrayal." This, of course, leaves the Freudians to produce a new version of the Oedipus complex...
...time we had drunk liquor en casa was on the Fourth of July. On Independence Day we toasted the United States with a bottle of the local brew. Each member of the family hugged me in congratulations for "my day." Then Papa and I solemnly consumed the revered--and apparently much-feared--beverage in front of a television screen on which appeared successively, shots of an unidentified parade, people milling in Central Park, and finally, Nelson Rockefeller greeting the people in his own correct, methodical Spanish, testifying to the greatness of two great peoples on this great...
Mary Welsh Hemingway, the fourth and last wife of Ernest Hemingway, was 36 and already twice married when she bumped into Papa, then 44 and Jeep-bouncing in journalistic pursuit of World War II. The place was Paris, in the summer of 1944. The third time they met he declared, "I want to marry you," adding: "You're beautiful, like a May fly." Mary, a war correspondent for TIME, turned in her uniform and her press card to become Hemingway's "Pickle" or his "Kitten," as he referred to her in the mellow moments...
...Tuna. Papa John Creach's band, also at Lenox Music Inn. Saturday, September 4, at 5 p.m. (All the Music Inn tickets are $5.50 in advance, $6.50 at the gate, and can be purchased from Ticketron or from the Music...