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...sick cow, the crops were burning up for lack of rain. A branch of the family in the funeral business was stuck with a monstrously expensive glass coffin. Fortuitously, the area's biggest illegal distiller expired. His widow, impressed with the glass box and its air-tight rubber seal, bought the thing on sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Country Boy | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...extraordinary obsession with opera. He hits upon the grand scheme of building an aperu house in the middle of the Peruviam Amazon jungle--a shrine to his god Caruso. To finance his brainechild, Fitzearruldo attempts to claims a large expanse of unexplored territory and cash in on the huge rubber free crop. In order to reach the area, however, he must unvigute up one river and cross over a ridge of land to another river--drugging one large steamship and host of manacing Indians in his wake...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: King of The Jungle | 10/29/1982 | See Source »

Turk said the favorable decision for the tenants might convince residents in other HRE buildings to challenge the University "Too often tenants feel that the rent control board only rubber stamps these increases," he said, "It's important to know you can fight...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Prescott St. Tenants Victorious In Fight Against Rent Increase | 10/28/1982 | See Source »

Fitzcarraldo is unusual for a Herzog film in providing a gallery of delightful supporting performances. Claudia Cardinale, as Fitz's mistress Molly, radiates sensuality like a healthy year-round suntan. Jose Lewgoy, who plays an unscrupulous rubber baron, takes immense and innocent pleasure in his character's venality. Miguel Angel Fuentes, the boat's mechanic, is a huge ivory totem, twice as large as Arnold Schwarzenegger and with three times the dark charm. Grande Othelo, who starred 40 years ago in Orson Welles' unfinished film It's All True, is the wrinkled old retainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Did You Ever See a Boat Walking? | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

There is, of curse, a graphic and unpleasant response to that question, but a polite student with no career plans has only two ways to answer: the gong way ("I'm planning to parlay it into a billiondollar rubber empire in the South American jungle") or the honest way--"I have no idea...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Job Hunting | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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