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...personal. "What do you think I feel when I am alone in my room, when there is nobody there? I am very lonely. I want to be in somebody's pocket, to be taken care of." She stops and shakes her head, letting her long blonde hair swirl around her like leaves in a sudden gust. "But then I want to be free...
...books, not counting revisions or new collections. He likes to travel but has no hobbies. Böll was on his way to Israel when he heard of his prize. He expressed the usual joy and surprise, though only a hermit could not have heard the rumors that swirl like falling leaves each autumn. Shortly afterward, his son Vinzent ungraciously announced that, indeed, his father had been expecting the award. What the young man apparently did not realize was how many other writers were also on tiptoe...
Around him swirl a vast collection of characters: the eccentric genius in grain futures, the Texas oil man (named Tanker!), blackmailers, thieves, underground Communists, wives, children -and mistresses, mistresses, mistresses. There is no plot, only the fitfully told story of Jules' inevitable catastrophe. Mostly to affront the pretensions of a speculator he despises, Jules bets on the pound shortly before it collapses. Though there is still time to hedge, Bertillon of Bertillon goes down with his pride...
...swirl of white feathers, a dazzle of rhinestones and a white Adolfo dress that seemed pasted to her, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper outswanned them all at the Swan Ball in Nashville, Tenn. She was not there for social swimming, she explained, but for Art-an exhibit of her collages and drawings at the Tennessee Fine Arts Center. It was Gloria's fine-line slimness, though, that caught the eye. What magic diet had brought her 5 ft. 7½ in. down to 98 Ibs.? "It just happened," she told Columnist Eugenia Sheppard. "In the mornings I just drank...
...crisis. What Rose is really doing is steering a plain, old-fashioned moral course. Her state-school-educated children are good kids with clear heads and unwarped values. She loves her "exhausting days" of ironing and baby sitting for neighbors. Around this serene nucleus, judges, advocates, friends and schemers swirl...