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...parents were all along but he has to witness the ugly scene of his father's death. He hardens--perhaps because Madame Rosa's credibility has been shaken, perhaps because he discovers his father was less than a nobody. At any rate, he reaches into the dead man's pocket, out of Madame Rosa's sight, finds a cigarette and begins to smoke. He smokes again at Madame Nadine's when he is talking into her friend's tape-recorder reciting his life and thoughts. Smoking symbolizes the beginning of his independence from Madame Rosa as does his voluntary return...
...could die there rather than in a hospital; she does. Momo doesn't eat and leaves only once during the three weeks he stays with the body. Firemen break through the cellar door and discover both the body and Momo. They also find Madame Nadine's number in his pocket and call...
...bridal couple also stumble across some unforgettable double entendres from Mae's old pictures: "When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better," and the immortal "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" There are some new ones too. When her husband turns out to be a British spy, bigger, someone says, than 007, she sighs, "I never got a chance to take his measurements...
Schwartz, who teaches medicine at the University of Southern California, concedes that his 20-year study is an "obsession." When his five children visited Disneyland with him, he recalls, he used to have Lincoln-head pennies in his pocket; they would be awarded to the first child who could identify "a Marfan" in the crowd. His office is cluttered with busts of Lincoln. In 1976 he abandoned private practice and joined the geriatric department of a state mental hospital. Reason: so that he could have nights and weekends free to search Lincoln literature for more clues to Marfan...
...Sympathetic" price rises by U.S. makers of similar products are likely to follow, digging deeper still into the pocket of the U.S. consumer. The Treasury estimates that the decline in the dollar will increase the inflation rate by one-half point this year-and that adds up to billions in added costs for cars, cameras, cheese and other imports...