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...passes the all-important "Call me Ishmael" test. Its first line is "Matilda Jane Roberts was naked as the air." After that start, the narration wafts aloft into further elegant absurdity, as follows: "Known throughout south Texas as the Great Western, she came walking up from the muddy Rio Grande holding a big snapping turtle by the tail. Matilda was almost as large as the skinny little Mexican mustang Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call were trying to saddle-break...
Broken homes are the common thread that binds the lives of drifters. An accident or an illness can push someone over the brink. Wes Moreland, living in a $125-a-week room at the El Rio Motel in Bullhead City since March, says his life fell apart after a near fatal car accident in 1984. A onetime maintenance man in Thornton, Colorado, he lost three years of work, 64 lbs., and "my wife felt I wasn't the handsome young man she married." Three years ago, after his wife divorced him and got their $140,000 home and custody...
DIED. GINGER ROGERS, 83, movie star; Rancho Mirage, California. She was a young but scrappy veteran of more than 20 films and shorts, he a neophyte with one movie and a screen test behind him when they first danced together in 1933's Flying Down to Rio. Before the decade was over, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire had become the most famous pair of dancers that would ever cut their way across a high-gloss floor or up a spiral staircase. In the memorable words of Katharine Hepburn, the pairing gave him sex and her class-yet Rogers' own singular...
...some excitement, there's Astaire and Ginger's duo debut in "Flying Down to Rio," with a finale in which girls dance on the wings of moving airplanes. For sheer melodic and dancing enjoyment, try the bouncy "Lovely to Look At" sequence from the 1936 "Roberta," a musical with songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. For one of the greatest Gershwin songs sung with heart (if not virtuosity) to Rogers by Astaire, listen to "They Can't Take That Away From Me" from the 1937 "Shall We Dance...
...Neither country has clearly threatened the other's sovereignty. Peru seeks compliance with the 1942 Rio agreement, in which it is granted part of the demarcated jungle region, and has made no move to overthrow the Ecuadoran government. Even with a well-equipped air force, Peru hasn't extended the fighting beyond the strip of land in question...