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Self-taught in swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat and making bombs from clay pots, gunpowder and tar, Smith fought as a young mercenary in wars across France, the Netherlands and southeast Europe to the edge of the Ottoman Empire. Captured and sold into slavery, he wound up at a remote Black Sea military outpost, where a Turkish officer shaved Smith's head and riveted an iron ring around his neck. "A dog could hardly have lived to endure" the routine beatings and starvation rations that followed, Smith wrote in his colorful and epic autobiography...
...revealed the tactics he will use to try to close down the Kevin Rudd show. People who watch these players for a living are beginning to think that the P.M., caught up in his party's travails, has not yet got Rudd's measure. The government's attempt to tar him for his association with Labor felon Brian Burke had the opposite effect. He's been embarrassed by a gas-guzzling car and a solar-free home, and no doubt the government and a more searching media will turn up more trouble: perhaps he runs the air-conditioning hard...
...Luisa's black maid Mercé (Rita Montaner), who has raised her selflessly since infancy; Ana Luisa believes she is an orphan. José Carlos, who has much more affection for Mercé than Ana Luisa does, tries charming her with odd endearments: "my soot cloud," "my little tar ball," and "You are a refined black lady, you were made of the finest coal where diamonds are extracted from." Her reason for fighting the betrothal is that she is Ana Luisa's mother, though she has never told the girl. Love has made Mercé endure both her maid status...
...first time gives one the sense that everything else is rank hypocrisy. His opinion of human nature was low, and that low opinion applied to his heroes and his villains alike - he was endlessly disappointed in humanity and in himself, and he expressed that disappointment in a mixture of tar-black humor and deep despair. He could easily have become a crank, but he was too smart; he could have become a cynic, but there was something tender in his nature that he could never quite suppress; he could have become a bore, but even at his most despairing...
...bunny that she still has that I threw in tar and the entire thing got tar-covered,” John Henry remembers. “She still has it in her room at home. Since she was three years old, she’s slept with a bunny rabbit...