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...stay I found myself saddled with a large one rather closer to home—that is, with the woman living in the room next to mine. Grandma is the octogenarian mother of the Argentine woman who houses and feeds me during the semester. Her middle toe was sawn off a few weeks ago, and while she recuperates she’s staying with us. In two months of living two meters apart, we have never introduced ourselves. I am only known to her as “Psssst! Psssst...
...inability to advance the story. Other wayward women clot Clot's life. His ex-spouse ("for a good-looking woman she was beautiful") won't take his videophone calls. A housewife is entertaining a mysterious daily visitor, and her husband hires Clot to investigate. Meanwhile, magicians are missing the sawn halves of their lovely assistants, stolen in mid-act. Improbably, these trails lead to the doorstep of Manex Chopeitia, boss of the genetic-engineering firm that controls the national telecom and much else in the U.S.-Iberian Federation. Clot faces a dilemma: unmask Chopeitia's plans for world domination...
...Stevenson's resolution was novel. In May, the artist staged an elaborate ceremony at NAK, where The Gift was dismantled and sawn into portions for the two dozen collectors, called Twodo. The bizarre event, presided over by an anthropologist from Cambridge and mimicking the gifting rituals of islands like Roti, brought Stevenson even closer to his subject. Ultimately he saw Fairweather, who was forced to dig ditches in Devon after being deported from Roti, as "a very exemplary case history" of the struggling artist who must barter to survive...
...then is a familiar tale - 45 shows, 5 films, 12 albums and a few too many reunions - and the only revelations in the book are the minor bust-ups of the Pythons, who inevitably wearied as their Circus labored into the 1980s. The narrative is nailed crudely together from sawn-up planks of new interviews with the stars - and old ones with friends and family in the case of Chapman, who died in 1989 - with no attempt to trim the overlapping reminiscences. As a result, some of the anecdotes - like the one about the party Chapman threw to come...
...killed in a gun battle with Afghan security forces were high-ranking al-Qaeda members who had hours earlier escaped from prison, said Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. He said that the men - 12 Pakistanis and one Kyrgyz national - had been caught late last year, but they had apparently sawn through bars on a prison window and fled the capital Kabul. The firefight took place at an isolated police post at Binizar about 15 km southeast of Kabul. Two government soldiers and one civilian also died in the fighting...