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...Jones in Richardson's movie. Finney now possesses all the characteristics of a late-middle-aged man, from the beefy chin to the salt-and-paper hair and loosening skin. Like others his age, Finney endured the 60s, probably just barely, coming out of that decade a shell of the physical god he was in 1963. He is almost a different person from the Finney of 1963, who fit neatly into the role of Tom, the bronzed free spirit skipping about the fields and making love to chambermaids who, as do all women who meet him, find him irresistible...
...most striking aspect of the Pucker Safrai Exhibit is a painting by Picasso. "Femme au Fauteuil," painted in 1948, reflects the shell-shocking influence of the Second World War. It depicts a woman in two-dimensional, almost paralyzed, form. Her stare is blank, and she appears so confused that it appears vapid...
Duale Noor Sabrie was sitting in his house in Mogadishu when the shell hit. Three of his brothers and his oldest son were killed. "The place was burning. My wife went in one direction; I went in another. It took us one month to find each other," he recalls. The family migrated by foot and boat to a refugee camp on the Kenyan coast. Sabrie had been a successful businessman with cars and servants and thousands of dollars of cash in the bank. Now, he says, "I am 56 years old. I cannot go home again or start over. Nothing...
...firms also complain bitterly about an array of regulations that require refineries to meet costly standards for reformulated gasoline and other clean- burning fuels. As a result, Shell, Amoco and Unocal are among big producers that plan to close or downsize facilities. Oilmen say domestic production is further threatened by proposed EPA regulations that would impose tight controls on drilling wastes and other by-products. Such rules, they warn, will force the closing of hundreds of small "stripper" wells that make up 75% of the nation's total...
...VendaCards for the MCZ labs because the last time he was there and wanted to use the photocopiers, he realized that even though he had his Law School VendaCard and his Bio Labs CopyKey, he'd left the MCZ card back at home. So he had to shell out another dollar...