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...politicans don't come to Farmington, for the town is neither wealthy nor large. There is none of the primary fever--no heightened anticipation of the outcome in Farmington that I have seen in other parts of the state. When those few who do consider the primary important gather to talk politics, they speculate on the process as though they were spectators at a horse race, caring only to see who wins...
...absolutely impossible! Even the U.S. had its revolutionary era. Then you were at war with the British, but later you became allies. For a long time it was said that China was a Moscow satellite and look how things have turned out. Revolutionaries have a moment of great fever and passion combined with a lack of experience. So you have to be very patient with them...
This does not mean that Ogilvie's account of how his straight man, Jim Larson, goes slightly bananas in the course of finishing a movie is a mere fever chart. The journey of another kind of odd couple dramatizes, poignantly and wittily, Elizabeth Hardwick's observation that performers tend to lead their lives "gregariously and without affections." There are lots of gorgeous scenes, including an incident of status panic in Schwab's drugstore with a lunchtime crowd of actors desperately vying with one another for the attention of a powerful producer, and a party where a White...
While some families poked around in dresser drawers and jewelry cases for gold cufflinks and earrings, others rummaged through attics and closets in search of long forgotten sterling silver tea sets, candlesticks, or perhaps just a stray silver ashtray. Gold and silver fever is spreading to ordinary folks, and many were lining up at coin and jewelry shops to seE their little treasures for quick cash...
...unassuming man of God. In his sparsely furnished house, he is surrounded by the cheerful noise and confusion of a typical Middle Eastern home. He evidently enjoys the company of his 14 grandchildren. He is said to have a weak heart, has suffered from a form of undulant fever and can work for only a few hours a day. Still he performs the devout Muslim's daily ritual of prayer without visible effort. He subsists on a sparse diet of rice, bean curd, yogurt and raw onions, supplemented now and then by a slice of melon...