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...dozen R.D.P. assemblymen are also under indictment or investigation, many on charges for thinly disguised political reasons. The new party has not even found a landlord willing to rent it space for a headquarters, forcing Kim Young Sam to joke that he "may have to pitch an extra-large tent on the bank of the Han River" for offices...
...happily subjects himself to a "continuum of nuttiness." He finds work at a tent factory ("I felt fine, a fine idiot doing a fine idiot job") and begins frequenting Bilbo's Bar, Gym & Grill, sparring occasionally, drinking a lot and hanging out with folks "who are anything but custodians of their chances in life." The first hint that all this aimlessness may be leading him somewhere comes when he moves in with Mary Constance Baker, an older woman, amateur actress and local celebrity, best known for her starring role in a play called A Woman Named Drown. In fact, this...
...Hart wanted so much to create a new America, to enact a new vision, why ^ did he roll grenades under his own tent flaps? There is something in his Arctic eyes, his rhetoric, that gives a chill...
...clever Odysseus (Thomas Hale), not the fierce but heroic Aias (Daniel Vilmure), with Achilles' armor. Snubbed, Aias swears revenge on the ungrateful Greeks, but in the madness of his rampage, slaughters not the Greeks but their sheep. All the gore happens offstage, except for one scene in which Aias' tent is so packed with bloody sheep car-casses that it looks like a meat locker...
...days later in a lakefront tent at the Hotel Beau-Rivage in Geneva, another event began: the sale of the late Duchess of Windsor's jewelry, organized by Christie's rival auction house Sotheby's. Here was a nominal contrast at least, since though everyone admires Van Gogh, none but a snob or a fantasist (not that we are short of either) could feel much nostalgia for Wallis Simpson and her husband, who abdicated the throne of England in 1936 and was obliged to spend the war years as governor of the Bahamas on account of his thinly veiled Nazi...