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...there was a young girl called Margaux Hemingway, who had a pretty face and lived in Ketchum, Idaho. Although her grandfather Ernest had been a famous novelist, Margaux wanted to be a model, and so one day she moved away to New York City. There she met a hamburger heir named Errol Wetson, fell in love and planned to be married. At the same time, her pretty face began appearing on the cover of magazines like Vogue and Town & Country, making Margaux believe that she lived in the best of all possible worlds. Last week, however, life began looking better...
Consider the nature of the underwater hero. Neptune, Jules Verne's Captain Nemo, even Marvel Comics' Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, have all shared the brooding yet tempestuous personality often associated with fallen angels. The modern heir of these model wetheads is the submarine captain, particularly the German U-boat commander of World War II. With his beard, shabby sweater, and a little help from Hollywood, he cuts a theatrical figure that falls somewhere between cruel, cynical buccaneer and psychiatrist on summer vacation...
...return to the comfort of his sheets. And this same kind of tension can be seen in his collected poems. The dark fiery imagination of his early and final poems conflict with his middle works, the secure defensive posture of his satires--an appropriate conflict for Yeats's legitimate heir...
...warfare, the North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies clearly proved themselves to be among the best-trained and best-equipped fighters in the world. The North Vietnamese army of 570,000 is four times as large as that of Thailand. In swiftly conquering the South, the Communists fell heir to some $5 billion worth of U.S. military equipment, according to Pentagon estimates. Though nearly 200 American-built planes were flown out of Viet Nam to Thailand by escaping South Vietnamese pilots (and then largely recovered by the U.S.), dozens of aircraft fell into the Communists' hands, including...
...those who oppose 17th-century absolutism. Orgon, a wealthy and respected Parisian and supporter of Louis XIV, is infatuated by the pretended piety of Tartuffe, whom he has observed sweating blood in church. He welcomes him into his family, embracing him first as a brother, then as an heir when he disowns his skeptical son. Apparently hoping that his association with the pseudo-pious Tartuffe will create for himself a public image of God-fearing moral rectitude. Orgon out-tartuffes Tartuffe and becomes a greater impostor than the master himself. Right up until this comic situation seems on the point...