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...them together for a birthday party. Eight candles burned on the pink-and-white-iced cake, and despite the difficulty of drawing a breath in 8,000-ft.-high Addis Ababa, Rose Kennedy blew them out in one puff. "I made it," she panted, laughing, and handed the first slice to Emperor Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Lion of Judah, Elect...
According to the oft-repeated Andean scenario of disaster, an earthquake jars loose a gigantic slice of glacier and rock from a jagged peak. The massive landslide tumbles into a lake beneath the summit, breaking its natural morainic dam. This, in turn, sets loose what the Peruvian peasants refer to with dread as a huayco-a wall of water, rock and mud that can bury entire villages in the valleys below. In 1797 a huayco killed 41,000 Ecuadorians and Peruvians; in 1939 another took the lives of 40,000 Chileans...
Sharp Enough to Slice...
Though audiences could no longer feel it, Nichols' tongue was still sharp enough to slice. Richard Burton likes to retell the story of Walter Matthau, "a frenetic soul, and he finally blew his stack at Nichols' Odd Couple direction. 'You're emasculating me,' Walter cried. 'Give me back my balls!' From out front, Mike called back: 'Props...
Sklar: I think that kind of enapsulating of Beckett is garbage. Beckett's world is comprchensive and everyone I've read, really, except a tiny little article by Alain Robbe-Grillet, everyone tries to take a slice of the pic and say. "this is Beckett." Ruby Kahn interprets Endgame from a religious point of view, somebody clse says it takes place inside a womb, another says it's the beginning. I find myself enraged cach time I see one of these interpretations as a sort of umbrella that it has to go under...