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...also been a North Carolina legend, the pre-eminent undercover county revenue agent in a state where the making of illegal alcohol is considered next door to a constitutional right. Bunting has been so good at his work that many local folk assume he is "a conjure doctor," a devil's ally who "can read your mind like it's you thinking." Bunting modestly demurs: "Country people, you know. They put a lot of junk on me. Many times, though, it's what kept me alive...
...Dreyfus affair, the infamous turn-of-the-century case of the Jewish army officer who was sent to Devil's Island on trumped-up charges of treason, is troubling France once again. But this time the controversy involves art rather than matters of state: where to place a bronze statue of Alfred Dreyfus, who was finally exonerated in 1906. The 12-ft.-high work by the artist and sculptor Tim, a political cartoonist for the magazine L'Express, was commissioned by Culture Minister Jack Lang as part of a program to promote French sculpture. Tim wanted the bronze...
...Great Gatsby offers a classic instance of jazz-age chatter: " 'He's a bootlegger,' said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. 'One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass.' " In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark's prepubescent girls wonder, as children always will: " 'Miss Brodie said they clung to each other with passionate abandon on his last leave...
Most of the crumbling monuments are victims of a troublesome combination: salt in the building stone and moisture from the ground and air. Says Salah Ahmed Salah, an expert on the preservation of stone at Cairo University: "Salt crystals are like a sleeping devil. Only when you add moisture do they start to act." The water penetrates the stone, dissolves the salt and in the form of a saline solution migrates back toward the surface. There the moisture evaporates, leaving behind the salts, which recrystallize, forcing apart the grains of stone. The result is a flaking and crumbling surface...
...pretty creepy when guys cheat on their wives and the other way around, stuff like that. When I was little, I had all the usual feelings of guilt. I was very conscious of God watching everything I did. Until I was eleven or twelve, I believed the devil was in my basement and I would run up the stairway fast so he wouldn't grab my ankles. We had the kind of stairway where there were spaces between each step...