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...Marshall is grinding, trivial and dehumanizing, especially when it interferes with Sam's love for another associate, Camilla Newman. The attraction, however, is a mystery. Ms. Newman is profane, nasty and thoroughly obsessed by her job. Her few excursions into sex make Last Tango in Paris seem tender. When she dumps Weston to take up with Lawrence, an associate who wants to make partner the way condemned men want to live, it is difficult to grant the hero any sympathy...
...coughing blood, and soon afterward retired from the soccer field. Other arenas soon presented themselves. Not quite 21, Camus married Simone Hie, a beautiful young woman and a drug addict. Within a year the couple were estranged, and Camus began his lifelong exploration of "the tender and reserved friendship of women." He became an actor-director in a workers' theater, a profession that taught him the value of public postures, and he joined the Communist Party, with which he would have his bitterest wrangles...
...omelettes. The omelettes come with fillings including shrimp, mushrooms and broccoli. The seafood is fresh and crispy. For $3-$4 you can eat Shrimp Louis, plump white shrimps on a bed of lettuce and eggs with dressing, or order a platter of fresh Crab Claws Matignon, very sweet and tender. And a real plus--Cafe Florian's lettuce isn't wilty or dark, and it's surprisingly fresh...
Start brunch off with one of Shanghai's soups. The tender bean curd is mostly thick and custardy; it melts in your mouth and sits in a bath of broth. We had the sweet variety, although you can order it salted as well. Another of Shanghai's sweet soups is the sesame rice ball. This is a very sweet broth containing one-inch dough balls filled with sesame seeds. They have the consistency of bubble gum and could choke even the most flexible esophagus. Keep away! If you don't like sweet things, be careful. Shanghai really sugars their stuff...
...Pretoria government from profiting by the U.S.'s gold fever, Congress last year passed a law requiring the Treasury to begin selling its own one-ounce and half-ounce gold pieces next spring. The coins, with profiles of Louis Armstrong and Mark Twain, will not be legal tender in the U.S., and will presumably be no easier to swap for real money than the Krugerrand...