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...high IQ (154), Smith used his cell time to take college correspondence courses and study law. Over the years he lodged 19 appeals to federal and state courts while delaying execution dates. Public interest in his case mounted, and National Review Editor William Buckley became a friend and patron...
...skewer him with his rapier. Defamation, rent arrears, carrying an unlicensed sword-the lawsuits piled up until in 1606 Caravaggio murdered a man by knifing him in the groin over a game of tennis and was banished from Rome. There ensued four bizarre years of flight and intermittent patron age, as Caravaggio blundered in and out of scrapes in Naples. Malta and Sicily, executing masterpieces on the run. In 1610 he died of malaria in the fishing village of Porto Ercole. while trying to sneak back into Rome. He was 36 years old. His public career, with all its ruinous...
...last week's NATO conclave, where the Hollywood moviemakers were practically invisible, there was a whole midway of barking concessionaires trying to sell the exhibitors the latest House o' Weenies rotisseries, Pronto-Burger rigs and even microwave ovens for veal Parmesan. After all, the average drive-in patron, according to one study, pops for 49? worth of refreshments; the indoor theaters count on 22? per customer. That adds up to approximately $800 million a year, or close to 40% of the theater owner's total take. In 1971, that's movie...
...pool located in the far reaches of some bleak London suburb. He is engulfed by sexual fantasies but terrified when any of his female customers attempt to initiate him. Little wonder. Women for him are a mystery and a threat. They either overwhelm him with bloated lust (like one patron who smothers him in a bone-crushing embrace while passionately discussing football) or exploit him, like Susan (Jane Asher), another attendant at the baths, whose simultaneous taunting and flirting Mike finds irresistible...
...after Boulanger shot himself over his mistress's fresh grave, his former political patron, Georges Clemenceau, produced a suitably cruel epitaph. "Boulanger," sneered the Tiger, "died, as he had lived, like a subaltern." Now, in the first complete biography of Boulanger, English Historian and Musicologist James Harding offers to set the record straight. Sexual infatuation as well as drugs, he concedes, played a part in the general's rise and fall. Poor and provincial, Boulanger was wounded six times in battle before becoming a general in the French army at the comparatively young age of 42. The last...