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Asking for a rare third edition ofBen Hur- a book that doesn't really exist - he realizes she knows little about rare books:Marlowe: Would you happen to have aBen-Hur, 1860?Agnes: A what?Marlowe: I said, 'Would you happen to have aBen-Hur, 1860'?Agnes: Oh, a first edition?Marlowe: No, no, no, no, no.Although he was awed by the natural sights, she replied unimpressed: "Once a girl's seen Superman in action, Niagara Falls kind of leaves you cold.As he stumbled from the bar into a video arcade nearby, he noticed a ROCKY-pinball machine - and further annoyed and enraged, he threw his JB liquor bottle at the glass backing with Rocky's image (arms outstretched in victory), shattering it and leaving only blinking lightbulbs in a V-pose.Appearing in the late 1970s, it was a soulful, beguiling, magical, and benevolent look at 'close encounters.(She was keeping it a secret that she was having an affair.)Oliver Jordan, the third heir in the shipping line business that had existed for a century, arrived at his unremodeled office in New York's Battery, supervised by his secretary Miss Copeland (Elizabeth Patterson).