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Trucks in the Street. Maybe that explains why Clemente is an insomniac who says: "Anything makes noise while I'm in bed, I hear it-a truck outside the hotel, a footstep in the hall." And that he is widely regarded as an unreconstructed hypochondriac, whose headaches, colds, cramps and nervous stomach come from worrying-about his headaches, colds, cramps and stomach. Even so, Roberto, says Pittsburgh Manager Harry Walker, "is just the best player in baseball, that...
Loaded with Evidence. They paid four midnight visits to the neo-Nazis' secret headquarters in downtown Stockholm. Working by flashlight, they photo graphed documents, photos, anti-Semitic tracts, Nazi flags, busts of Hitler, small arms. On one visit they were startled by what sounded like a footstep. They bolted for the piano in the office, started banging out the Nazi Horst Wessel song and singing lustily. But the noise turned out to be the minute hand of a big clock, which had stuck momentarily, then was released with a thump...
...glass doors right and left, and the beautiful holy music of Silence so overwhelmed me by its delight that I swooned. With the return of my mind that was shut off, I found myself at the third plateau. My Classmate, who was accompanying me and encouraging me with every footstep, whispered to me that First Class Citizens came in at this level to proceed to the Vision of the Section Man. How joyous for these people. How privileged they are to be met by the Elevator and borne up by its Pulley, like so many little birds...
...glasses-and kept without food or water for 14 hours. "It was impossible to sleep," recalls Wilde. "In a cell next door there seemed to be a madman who yelled all night. It is amazing how soon one becomes conscious of sound in jail. A rattle of keys, a footstep in the corridor, a car stopping outside bring one immediately to attention because perhaps it means release...
...Friday. The "science-fiction" writer, busy working the unknown nowadays, requires planets, galaxies, universes and all the latest portents of physics. He sets out, as Defoe did, to make the reader's imagination whirl with mingled curiosity and alarm; but where Defoe found novelty in a human footstep, the science-fictioneer stakes everything on such inhuman images as "a six-foot egg made of greenish gelatin" or "nine feet of slimy green trunk tapering ... to a pointed top." Where Defoe laid down his ideas in a prose as plain as his images, his successor revels in portentous complexity...