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...opening scene of the movie close your mind. This girl, Diane Tremayne, a witch, actually poisons people. In two instances, her vial spins other girls into change, alters their lives. In the third instance, it ends a life. You think: But why insult us with poisons and dolls? What do I take seriously...
...moneymaker. The Littons bought Sam as a two-month-old calf for $10,000, soon found that he was perfectly suited for breeding: Sam has the size, color and easy disposition of the best Charolais, has proved unusually effective in passing along those traits to his progeny. A small vial of his semen, enough to impregnate one cow, sells for $10. The Littons sell the semen abroad as well as in the U.S., take in $80,000 a year on such transactions. Looking back on his original investment, Jerry Litton happily calls Sam 951 "an accident...
...Juan is never angry-even when he gets up in the morning." Roseboro's own roommate, Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills, insists that Juan Marichal is "a nice guy-and a great individual." He is that all right. He is the grinning practical joker who passes around a perfume vial labeled "Apple Blossom," which actually is a stink bomb. He is the "Dominican Dandy" who dresses all in blue and cream. He is the mild hypochondriac who changes doctors with the wind and claims that he can't sleep properly in San Francisco because of "something...
...story's hero, 16-year-old Gennaro, is named for the city's patron, San Gennaro, whose clotted, vial-encased blood, according to tradition, miraculously bubbles three times each year. Gennaro's blood bubbles daily. The ebullient bastard child of a peasant mother and soldier father, he divides his zealous energies between caring for his impoverished, half-paralyzed Chinese grandfather and carrying on grandfather's moribund undertaking establishment...
...strangers, but they understand each other quickly because they have a common latter-day heritage "that was as much a part of German culture as Goethe and Schiller." They both know how to alter passports, how to dress inconspicuously to put off the police, how to conceal a vial of poison or perhaps a razor blade as a last remedy if they should fall into the hands of the Gestapo. The man named Schwarz describes a common enough European odyssey-the flight from Germany to Paris with his wife, internment in the early months of the war, escape and flight...