We see them from Joan's P.O.V., through the open door as the TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER directs Joe to stand with his arms crossed, in the stance of a literary giant. She turns to go back to the party but she can't face the writer's wives who've been watching her with their sad, ...
The bank keeps a large surplus of money in reserve. The doctor gave him some medicine to abate the pain. His ambition was consummated when he won the prize. Our savings have dwindled since my wife was sent to hospital. It is haphazard timetable, sometimes lessons are held and sometimes ...
Beware the child who drops so much as a Polly Pocket shoe on its adult-only surface. Take heed all ye youngsters who dare grab a pen or roll of tape from its hallowed drawers. I am vigilant about staking out that small three-by-five-foot surface as my sole, highly-protected territory...
Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Ned Hawthorne. But then, Amelie wakes up in a pit...
Take a bit from mine, and be good to your wife while you can. I’d give all I’m worth–I know that aint much–if I could say some things to my wife and do some things for her that I didn’t do.” Holcroft spoke in the simplicity of a full and remorseful heart, but he ...
I’m a hard-line atheist I have to say.” Salman Rushdie claims himself to be a humanist. He keeps the view that human existence can be understood only through reading and writing.[16]In a media conversation, he stated, The larger stories, the grand narratives that we live in, which ...
Some time later, I got his wife’s explanation of her behaviour from a third party who was trying to help. Apparently his wife said that the problem was that my friend had too many unnecessary contacts, and she was trying to help him cut them down. She may well believe this; he does...
EXT. THE STREET OF THEIR LOFT - MICHAEL, JEFF - WALKING - NIGHT Michael and Jeff heading home from work. MICHAEL When I was living with her she was a hippie -- she looks like the president of the P.T.A. now! (MORE) MICHAEL (cont'd) I don't know what I was ever doing with...