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...Acme, who owns the local gagworks. So when Marvin gets bumped off, Roger is the prime suspect. His only hope is Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a human detective who has been burned out and bitter ever since a Toon killed his brother by dropping a piano on the poor sib's head...
...Britain's financial-services areas, including securities, Eurobonds, commodities and foreign exchange, will be governed by a series of self-regulatory organizations. Their activity, in turn, will be supervised by the Securities Investment Board, a private-sector body whose decisions are backed by the force of the law. Says SIB Chairman Sir Kenneth Berrill: "The aim in the U.K. was to get the rules applied and interpreted by practitioners, and not by lawyers." Now, even some Conservative Party members feel that a tough U.S.-style Securities and Exchange Commission is needed. Says former Prime Minister Edward Heath...
Attempting to bring black women together, ABRW this year has sponsored a "Big Sib" program for incoming black freshman women, a meeting to provide general information about University Health Services, and a dinner with W. Antoinette Ford, formerly a member of the presidential clemency board and now a fellow at the Institute of Politics...
...story tells the plight of Miles Faber, a wealthy young pedant who is determined to visit the Caribbean island of Castita in order to discover facts about a totally unsung native poet named Sib Legeru. His innocent search soon plunges him into confrontations with menacing strangers who demand answers to fantastic questions instead of replying to Miles' simple ones. Worse, he learns that not only is he the child of an incestuous union but that he also has both a sister and a double on the island. Murder and mayhem follow with appropriate speed...
Burgess leaves a plethora of clues as to his abstruse purposes-most of them in multilingual hints and guesses. The story starts in Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel. The man who encouraged Miles' interest in Sib Legeru, for instance, is one Professor Keteki-Sanskrit for riddle. While killing time with TV in his hotel room, Miles watches an old movie with Death and Transfiguration (by Richard Strauss) on the sound track...