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Plainspoken and totally indifferent to sartorial fashion, Wilson was far removed, from the Tory Britain of clubs and grouse moors. He and his home-loving wife Mary (they have two sons) seldom entertained; they did their holidaying reading whodunits in a cottage in the Scilly Isles, off Land's End. After his third return to office in 1974, Wilson did not even bother to move back to 10 Downing, preferring to stay in his town house a few blocks away...
...Capitalism. Marley is Jamaica's superstar. He rivals the government as a political force. The mythical hero of his last album, Natty Dread, has already become a national symbol. Marley is a cynosure both in Jamaican society and in the trenchtown ghetto where he grew up. He seldom appears in either milieu, but when he does, it is with a retinue that includes a shaman, a cook, one "herbsman" laden with marijuana, and several athletes...
...play. As she prattles on in bed, telling endless postcoital anecdotes about her grandmother, Mastroianni stares straight ahead, bereft, bored, glazed, luckless, irked, satisfied but uncompelled, paying dearly now for his pleasure. It is a scene Mastroianni manages with the kind of comic melancholy that comes from depths too seldom sounded...
...conditions. Now I not only live under these conditions, but am sometimes happy. The concept of 'a live worth living' surely is elastic." If Speer has any deep loves or even small passions, he never mentions them. His references to his wife are typical of his general outlook. He seldom mentions her at all--usually only when she visits him. Oddly, he never refers to her by her first name, but only as "my wife." His descriptions of her visits are terse and factual; he rarely relates his feelings about her. At bottom, it seems, he has no real love...
...boasting of gains achieved by the Soviet Union in recent years, speakers at the 25th Communist Party Congress last week almost totally ignored one impressive area of advancement: military strength. Whenever it has come to a choice between swords and plowshares, Moscow has seldom hesitated. Swords it has been. Neither bad harvests, shortages of consumer goods nor the spirit of detente with the West has braked the Soviet military buildup. In the past decade, Moscow has so expanded its forces that most defense analysts around the world agree that the U.S. is in danger of losing its strategic edge. Items...