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American diplomats will commute to the new embassy from a five-story annex in East Beirut, where Christian militias maintain a modicum of security. Fifteen Marines will guard both the new embassy and the annex, but they will stay off the street and out of sight. Those precautions are prudent. Just two days before the American Marines left, a furious gun battle broke out between rival Lebanese militiamen in West Beirut. One of the two people killed was a man trying to rescue the wounded...
Jerome Crabbe stars as the flamboyant gay novelist Gerard Reve, Flat broke. Reve is on his way to do a reading for a literary club in a small town called Flushing when, at the Amsterdam train station, he sights a nicely-built young fellow. After an effort to follow the man. Reve loses sight...
...only contains 30% less oxygen than at sea level but makes auto engines produce nearly twice as much carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon pollution. Then, when the city's befouled air rises, the mountains trap it in the virtually permanent smog that now blocks the snowy crests from sight. The 14 million new saplings that the city planted on many streets between 1976 and 1982 are already withering and turning yellow. Every once in a while an enterprising reporter tests the air by putting a caged bird in the middle of the Zócalo; the bird customarily collapses...
Once upon a time, in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, there lived two boys named Per and Mike. As they sat quaffing ale after ale one fine day, they happened on a picture of a sight beloved of all Danes: the bronze statue of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid in the city's harbor. Twenty springs earlier, this winsome lass had lost her head to vandals. On this summer evening, Per and Mike lost theirs. In the dead of night, the two boys stole up on the sculpture and sawed off her right...
...Penthouse shots are apparently from this take). But material from the second session with Williams and another woman is enough to take the starch out of anyone's shirt, even the Playboy Bunny's. One of the minor amusements of this whole episode was the sight of Hugh Hefner, swathed in silk loungewear, being interviewed on the Today show show and expressing concern for Williams' career. "The single victim in all of this was the young woman herself, whose right to make this decision was taken away from her. If she wanted to make this kind...