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...bewilderment amuses him. "Did you know about the Polish-Americans?" The general manager sneaks up while the scribbler is saying that he would prefer to continue our conversation in Polish or Lithuanian. The general manager intends to lock this lunatic up, or give him the ax: he sends the usher to find an ax. The lunatic asks if this place is chauvinistic, which sounds like a reasonable question to me. But an approaching police siren shoos him off without an answer. I must be staring at the frenzied general manager a little too suspiciously, because he chatters...
...This one sounds implausible, but everyone from George Eastman (collaborating on a version of The Fall of the House of Usher) to Roger Corman (Tales of Terror) has done Poe, so who knows. It's Spirits of the Dead, a collection of three Poe short stories, directed by Fellini, Louis Malle and......Roger Vadim. Starring Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot. The original title for this was apparently Histories Extraordinaires, but the simple change to Extraordinary Stories, or even Strange Tales, must have been deemed unsuitable...
...that night late July, when the Birds were defeated to fall further off the pace, the fans shuffled off quietly and the girl in the front row stood for the first time since the game began. All the men around her had left, and the usher beckoned noisily from the exit for everyone to leave. She stood gazing at the diamond, where the ground crew was rolling out the dull green tarpaulin to close out the night. Slowly I made my way to the first row. The arena was all ours. My heart beat harder than a Baltimore chop under...
...considered most likely to take charge of dismantling the Saigon regime was one of that regime's principal architects: General Duong Van ("Big") Minn. Nearly twelve years ago, Minh helped usher in the period of South Vietnamese history that is now rushing to a close. He and a group of fellow officers began it all by toppling the unpopular, autocratic President Ngo Dinh Diem. If Minh is now chosen to preside over the transfer of effective political power to the Communists, it will be largely for one reason: the past dozen years have left him relatively untainted by either...
...backsides of the row of people in front of me who gave Tony C. a standing ovation. Three had checkered underwear, one spilled popcorn on me when she went to clap and forgot that her left hand was occupied, and one had his back pocket picked by an usher...