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...Never Can Tell can be thought of as a nightmare version of the Brady Bunch: what happens when a famous author and her three children encounter the husband she left 18 years earlier. Throw in the one of the daughter's complicated courtship by a penniless dentist, and you'll have most of the plot...
...washed up on American shores in the late 1950s. They were primarily doctors, engineers and other professionals who came armed with immigration papers. In 1972 the onslaught of illegal aliens fleeing Haiti in rickety boats began. They too claimed that they were seeking political asylum, but many of these penniless, illiterate, unskilled boat people seemed to be in desperate search of work. As the annual influx climbed to 20,000 in 1980, the welcome mat was withdrawn. In June 1981, the first group of illegal aliens was deported. A month later, President Reagan declared that it was time to "establish...
Tigers and temples and the Taj Mahal. Maharajahs and turbaned warriors and old men ritually wandering penniless in order to purify themselves and become holy. Snake charmers and bear tamers and wizened artisans using the simplest of tools to chisel out tiny, intricate talismans of beauty. Images of India, crossroads of the exotic East, have lingered in the Western imagination. During the past decade or so, they have been, more than ever, images from India's subjugated past, particularly from the British Raj of The Man Who Would Be King, Heat and Dust and Gandhi, of The Far Pavilions...
...share your interest in the life and work of Henry Miller. For if she succeeds in luring you southward to the exotically furnished SoHo loft she shares with an artist (Linda Fiorentino, who is also exotically furnished), the chances are excellent that you will shortly find yourself racing penniless through a rainstorm, trying to cope with a suicide attempt and a subway-fare increase, the consequences of a broken cash register at distracted John Heard's Terminal Bar and a cocktail waitress (Teri Garr) who is woeful in her work and sleeps in a bed surrounded by rattraps. But that...
...Brookings Junior Chamber of Commerce invited Fujita, by then a prospering businessman, to serve as honorary grand marshal of the town's azalea festival. Fujita was so moved by the gesture that he vowed to reciprocate by having local youngsters visit Japan, but his business subsequently failed, leaving him penniless. The industrious Fujita spent more than two decades saving the roughly $10,000 that will pay the students' travel costs. "After they have toured Japan," he says, "the war will finally be over...