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...Colony's trainer since March. They were vivid proof that opposites attract. Campo, 43, is a bombastic, street-wise man who rose to prominence by turning cheap horses into winners. Runkle was a slight, shy, sweetly bookish young woman given to quoting Her mann Hesse and Antoine de Saint-Exup...
Dashiell Hammett was boru in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, in May of 1894 and died 67 years later a few hundred miles north in New York City. In the intervening years he was a detective, an invalid and one of Faulkner's drinking partners. He annoyed Hemingway, raised the wrath of the McCarthyites, fought in two wars, went to jail and revolutionized the now well-known genre of detective fiction. From Red Harvest through The Maltese Falcon. The Thin Man and a hundred more short stories, he developed and became the epitome of the hard-boiled but literate writer...
However accoutered and however old, Plummer plumbs this plum of a role as few could at any age. So audiences and actors alike should cry thanks for Harry, England, and Saint Chris...
Both the Times and the Journal carried accounts of the criticisms implying that the aides had been speaking with Haig's knowledge and approval. Vacationing in Saint-Rémy, France, Kirkpatrick declared she was "surprised and hurt" about the attack on her performance. She insisted that in her negotiations with the Iraqis she had followed a National Security Council directive approved by Haig and Reagan. She contended that she never supported a resolution calling for sanctions or a review of arms policies toward Israel; she acknowledged that Haig had called Hammadi, but only after the negotiations had ended...
Cecil Beaton, for whose camera she seemed to have been invented, described her as "a tall, graceful scarecrow with the hands of a mediaeval saint." She appeared to have sprung fully formed from the battlements and spires of her childhood home, Renishaw Hall, like a figure in a tapestry...