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...every shot in advance, and usually the actual takes look amazingly close to his scribbled sketches.) Phoebe sat quietly, smoking a cigarette. Tommy had driven into town to get some supplies: a deck of cards (which he ultimately forgot), a bottle of bourbon, pizza, and, for Nora, a pear. Eric fiddled with equipment for a bit, but mostly just stood, staring at the fire...
...16th century, a slave picked an oyster from the sea off Panama's Pacific coast, and found inside a treasure of staggering size and beauty: a magnificent, 203.84-grain pear-shaped drop pearl. Over the years, La Peregrina (The Wanderer), as the gem came to be called, passed from Philip II of Spain to his English wife Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary"), then on to the Bonapartes of France, and to England's Marquess of Abercorn. Last week La Peregrina turned up on the block at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, and it was swiftly sold...
With success, Grandville's pen grew ever more pointed. Relying on a lexicon of readily recognizable symbols (scissors for censorship, sugarloaves for graft, a pear for King Louis Philippe's heavy-jowled face), he fought for a variety of political causes, including a free press. In addition he illustrated La Fontaine's Fables, Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe, all the time building a memorable cast of hybrid creatures, half human, half animal...
...version of the twelve days of Christmas, Eugene McCarthy racked up one campaign manager, two college triumphs, three promising states, four yeasty issues, five announced primaries, at least six supporting groups, and visions of a dove in a pear tree...
Brooks, at 235 lbs., is the big man among the big men and has led Harvard tackles in playing time for two years now. Burns, whose bulk has led to the nickname "Pear," was Brooks's runningmate at left tackle until a neck injury in the Dartmouth game cut short his Crimson career. Symmetrically between the two is Tom Weiss, who has been a center since he took up football in fifth grade...