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...night" and the "smoke of hell," she grabs the pointed crucifix hanging around her neck and spits on it. At the words "my keen knife" she inverts the cross, turning it into a lethal dagger. This is an electrifying moment, altogether fitting for a play in which "fair is foul" and everything is topsy-turvy...
Freakishly foul weather has struck so many parts of the world in the past year that some meteorologists discern a complex, long-term change in climates. Others discount the theory. On one point, however, all agree: the impact has been devastating to tourism, to industry, and most especially to the world's already hard-pressed food supplies...
This was the last time the horse has ever been out of the money. In fact, he never finished behind another horse in all the rest of his nine starts in '72, although once his number was taken down for a foul when Jockey Turcotte used the whip on him for the first time and the startled Secretariat ducked into another horse...
...wishing I were back in his novels, undisturbed by the knowledge that I'm a fictitious character who could be leading a less miserable life, I sometimes wonder about Kurt Vonnegut's Creator. What could possibly have motivated Him to have Vonnegut write Breakfast of Champions? What foul soul, mortal or immortal, would allow me to be so maliciously maligned? A thought just struck me. Perhaps my Creator has won his own freedom; maybe he has a free will. Then maybe someday he will come up with something better than this nauseating novel...
...replay, Radcliffe wasn't so lucky. A surprising Boston University boat, sneaked out to an early lead and made it stand up over 1000 meters, winning by a full ten seconds. Radcliffe, which never really recovered from the first-start foul up, ran second for most of the race, before being edged out by a fast-charging MIT boat by a stroke at the finish. B.U. was timed at 5:02. Radcliffe finished...