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What intrigues Wolfe is not the regional peculiarities of these places but the overlap among them.
When I look at our place in American history, though, what intrigues me are the missed opportunities--as when, for example, legal and societal distinctions were first made between white indentured servants and black slaves.
Bob Packwood's plans for a political comeback; another about an irate Boris Yeltsin threatening to exile from Russia his close friend and oil tycoon Boris Berezovski "if he did not immediately stop his intrigues"; and yet another about the Vatican's condemnation of John Carpenter's film Vampires . The front page of La Repubblica in Rome reported a campaign by the unreformed Italian Communist Party to stop Italian sportsmen from wearing clothes with the Nike logo on them.
Grace Metalious lived there when she was writing Peyton Place (though her editor made her relocate her novel to New England) and I must say from my years residing there that in the vividness of its intrigues the town lives up to its billing.
As Washington and the surveyors pass the pipe, intrigues and conspiracies involving all sorts of secret factions--Jesuits, Masons, British trading companies--are hinted at.