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Minke, Pramoedya Ananta Toer's young narrator and alter-ego in This Earth of Mankind, cannot get his mind off Annelies Mellema. He remembers the first time...
...Toer writes through the dreams and explanations of Minke, describing the jealous fits of Annelies's brother Robert, the resolute pride of her mother the Nyai (a Dutchman's brilliant concubine), and the machete-swinging brute force of their bodyguard Darsam...
Died. Cameron Shipp, 57, top Hollywood ghostwriter whose clients ranged from Billie Burke (With a Feather on My Nose) to Lionel Barrymore (We Barrymores), and who rebuffed critics of his craft with the argument that "after all, Moses was the first 'as-told-toer' "; of a heart attack; in Glendale, Calif...