Word: strangerness
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...Gothic mansion on the moors, a group of caricatures expound upon their social problems--but somewhere outside, an escaped criminal lurks. The players include a dimwitted blonde (Susan Kelly), a melodramatic maiden (Meg Schellenberg) and a gruff crippled veteran (Wise) who play cards endlessly. Into the scene comes a stranger (Goldfarb) who seems to fit the description of the fugitive. Who is he, and what will happen...
...plot moves very quickly through countless twists and turns involving movie stars, bums, religious fanatics, murderers, and naked women, but none of it really comes as a surprise, You know immediately it's a set-up when a stranger offers the narrator ten dollars to do a simple favor, and you know the evidence he hides will eventually turn up again...
Success is no stranger to James Chung. He was recently named a finalist in the Time Achievement Awards and he maintains a position on Senator Dole's campaign. But the true measure of James Chung's fortunes is the fact that one of the proposed Cabot House t-shirt designs for this year alludes to him by name. The slogan reads: "Everybody James Chung Tonight...
...Chileans will rub off on him. Chile's bishops had initially invited the Pope to come and celebrate the peaceful resolution of a territorial dispute between Chile and Argentina that nearly led to war before a Vatican- brokered peace agreement was signed in 1984. John Paul, who is no stranger to powerful military rulers -- from former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski and Haiti's former President-for-Life Jean- Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier -- was not about to allow Pinochet to use the papal visit for his own purposes...
Sequestered at a corner table in the bar of his restaurant, Clint Eastwood slowly drains a Corona beer and muses about this week's Oscar awards. Suddenly a stranger approaches, cradling a bundle in his arms. Eastwood squints at the intruder and says, "Hey, I won the election. I don't have to kiss babies anymore...