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Early Arrivals Chuck Cornell and Don Van Dyke head out across the ice in Chuck's old Datsun pickup. They drive for about five miles, seeking a quiet spot where the fishing won't be interrupted by the noise and clatter of passing snowmobiles. As usual they have chains on their tires. As usual the pickup's doors are flung wide open-so they can bail out at the first sign of the ice breaking up. Last year Don slipped on the ice and fractured his skull, but it does not bother him. Soon they wrestle Chuck...
...Instead of a symmetrically arranged sitdown affair, the meal was a recumbent Passover Seder. As practicing Jews, Jesus and his disciples would have dined while stretched out on couches, reclining to the left-the Passover expression of freedom. Moreover, says Rudofsky, they would have done so without the noisy clatter of silverware...
Next, to cries of "smut" and the clatter of forks on trays, cheerleaders ran through their rendition of a "wild Indian dance," flinging each other about like so many butter-pats at a Union food fight...
Balboni's next words are drwoned out by another blast and a crescendo of car horns. Only a few of the people in the Square pay attention to the noise. The mess, the clatter and the traffic jams have become the norm and it's almost difficult to remember what the Square looked like before Big Brother started...
Balboni's next words are drwoned out by another blast and a crescendo of car horns. Only a few of the people in the Square pay attention to the noise. The mess, the clatter and the traffic jams have become the norm and it's almost difficult to remember what the Square looked like before Big Brother started...