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...streets the peons carry La Muerte in sugar sculpture, larger than life. Through the land La Muerte strides, the hollow specter of starvation. It pauses at the hut of Macario the woodcutter (Ignacio Lopez Tarso). Six mouths to feed, and only a fistful of frijoles left. Bitterly, Macario cries aloud: "All my life I have been hungry-never once have I had enough to eat! Now I swear I will not eat again until I can have a turkey all to myself. I would rather die than be always hungry. But before I die, I want so much to feel...
...Lance didn't even say anything." Little did Mamma know. Just after he turned two, Lance began identifying cars by make. His mother thought he did it by recognizing shapes; it turned out that Lance was reading the name plates. In kindergarten, he unnerved the teacher by reading aloud to other tots during rest period. He mastered the multiplication table in three days, zipped through all six elementary grades in one year...
...into office by the likes of Jacob ("Little Jack") Guzik. Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo. and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys. Charging that one of Kelly's underlings had been driven to a suicide attempt by efforts to prevent him from testifying, the subcommittee chairman, Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, wondered aloud if the bulky, balding Chicagoan were not "the lowest scum of humanity" and if he had "no sympathy at all for your fellow man." Replied Kelly to both questions: "I decline to answer on grounds that my answer might tend to incriminate...
...first scene, in which she reads aloud the letter from her husband, comes off effectively--and she introduces many more pauses for reflection here than most actresses have dared...
...parking outside the man's apartment until the lights in his bedroom snap off. She manages to break up the affair, but it does not help. Whenever she feels "the quivering, shaking uncertainty coming near her," she sneaks off and recites the story of her abortion aloud, "using the crudest words she could think of." For a time she tries to become pregnant again with another man ("The hurt will stop when all that empty space is filled up"), but even that does no good...