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...even the rich family in Casmalia shares the concerns. Dave Tompkins came to ranch in 1937, after college, and he now has many hundreds of cattle, many hundreds of acres, and oil leases. Mature olive trees and enormous pink roses line the front yard of his splendid hacienda. "Something's wrong," says his wife. Dave nods. "There is something funny going on," he says...
Scorsese has told his tale at a pace just a little fizzier than the merely lifelike, encouraged his cameraman Michael Ballhaus to light it one notch brighter than reality, one notch darker than fantasy. His splendid actors never pause to explain their strange behavior. The result is a delirious and challeng- ing comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown...
...Director Bill Casey, in pinstriped elegance and ensconced in his splendid home off Washington's Foxhall Road, the very picture of a transplanted New Yorker, softly describes a world that is still dangerous and still unpredictable. But something has happened in the past few years that has heartened him. Revolutionaries for freedom are now getting more recruits than the totalitarians. Casey has had something to do with that, and he relishes the thought...
...jangled nerves among the 425 passengers. After two more days of traveling, Bailey hit a traffic jam outside New York City. Christmas Seal officials who had spotted Dolly Parton, 39, having lunch asked her to stand in for Pearlie Mae. As Parton did her part, Bailey showed up. A splendid pair of bosom buddies, said a fan. "No," Bailey corrected him. "I make a nice pair. Dolly makes lots of nice pairs...
...these exquisitely delicate objects is the 1,000-year-old, 1,200-lb. limestone Chacmool, the ceremonial figure that is the very emblem of Maya civilization in its later phases. Found at the most celebrated of all Maya sites, Chichen Itza in Yucatan, the semireclining statue is a splendid example of the Chacmools found guarding the entrances of temples. Typically, the male figure leans back on his elbows, pulls up his knees and turns a forbidding gaze on intruders at the sacred gates. A flat plate poised on his belly is believed to have been a receptacle for the hearts...