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Graham Greene's architect Querry had to trek to an African leprosarium to find a metaphor adequate to express his mood; nothing less would be sufficiently wasted, blighted, defunct. Querry was, Greene meant, A Burnt-Out Case, like the leper Deo Gratias, his soul far gone. He was a masterpiece of acedia, a skull full of ashes, a rhapsodist of his own desolation...
...three Wimbledons and, by any measure, dominated the sport. On clay, her preferred surface, she has had winning streaks of 125 and 64 matches. At various times in her career, she has been adored as a teen-age wonder, reviled as an unbeatable superstar and written off as a burnt-out case. Through it all, she has borne herself with grace and played impeccably. For the few moments that she stood on Centre Court, the championship salver held high overhead, Wimbledon was able to forget its problems. As well it should in the presence of a queen. -By BJ. Phillips...
...inopportune thunderstorm. Too burnt to boogey. Driven into Nini's Corner, and if you don't feel like talking about the puppies out at wonderland with the man behind the counter, you end up scanning the racks. And there, past. The Boston Review and before Esquire, sits the "Fashion for Men," magazine thick and glossy and magnificently overproduced. On the cover is a wind-blown, rough-and-ready type nuzzling what appears to be an independently wealthy woman, Beneath the logo is the word "Adventure!"; further down, "Summer Stvies on Safari...
...Quincy House resident reported to police that the note pad hung on her door had been set on fire. The student said another note pad was burnt last month...
When the hurricane of violence ended after five brutal hours, the toll was heavy: 165 policemen injured-26 requiring hospitalization-along with scores of civilians. Nearly 100 rioters were arrested. Estimates of property damage ran to more than $2.2 million. Beyond the burnt buildings and ravaged streets twinkling with shards of glass from shattered storefront windows, however, London now bears a more lasting scar: the psychic damage from the worst race riot in British history, an ugly explosion reminiscent of the violence that tore apart dozens of American cities in the '60s and, only eleven months ago, left whole...