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...Humorist Cliff ("Charley Weaver") Arquette, and daughter of a Second City improv artist and an activist poet, Rosanna played in the mud at Woodstock when she was ten and was taken by her mother on peace marches, her naked body painted STOP THE WAR, KILL NO MORE. After the tenth grade she left school in Chicago and hitchhiked to California. "I just bummed," she told TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Then I moved in with a guy. I was 15. Oh, my God, isn't that terrible?" At the suggestion of her parents, Arquette made her stage debut in Los Angeles...
Collected Poems 1947-1980, Allen Ginsberg -- The Fifth Son, Elie Wiesel -- Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis -- The Sioux, Irene Handl -- The Tenth Man, Graham Greene...
Under the agreement, each ABC shareholder would receive $118 in cash plus a tenth of a warrant that would allow the purchase of Capital Cities common stock at a set price...
...comparatively brief tale, evidently written with the prospect of filming firmly in view, The Tenth Man has more than its share of narrative grace notes and finesse. The weariness and dislocation that gripped Europe as the Nazis began retreating are suggested in a single sentence: "When a war ends one forgets how much older oneself and the world have become: it needs something like a piece of furniture or a woman's hat to waken the sense of time." A simple parish priest delivers a worldly homily: "All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware...
This novella dates from what is probably the most impressive stretch of Greene's long career: the years between Brighton Rock (1938) and The Third Man (1950), during which he also produced such novels as The Power and the Glory (1940) and The Heart of the Matter (1948). The Tenth Man is too spare to rank as a full partner in such company, but it springs from the same haunting and entertainingly obsessed imagination...