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Fullerton gets a lot right, or so it seems to a safely distant observer. He writes about pervasive dread, the fear of small-arms fire whipping through glassless windows, mortar rounds going off as one walks up a city street. After an attack by Serbs, Rosso feels a brief adrenaline high at being alive while others have died. Then shame. He recognizes this and sees that guilt may be what drives him to pursue the swaggering gang leader Luka, who poses as a resistance hero, and may, in some perverted way, actually...
...trampoline strips embedded in the stage -- allows for both solo dazzledry and daredevil group synchronization; it's like a playground of gifted children who actually get along. So do the girl duos of tightrope artists (Chinese) and contortionists (Mongolian). And everywhere are the stately clowns, peering through their gilded, glassless mirrors at the enraptured audience...
...Pope's picture hold sacred positions next to the children's photos on top of the television. Sewing machines work manually, though electricity is available. Instant coffee sits on top of a wood-burning stove. Battered wooden rockers sway next to plastic kitchen chairs. Telephone wires stretch above glassless windows. Near the electricity meter the old fashioned stove-pipe vent perches like...
...flutter to a gooey landing in the infield. Then a preacher leads the drivers in prayer and the rhine-stoned Carolina Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver's door, which, for safety reasons, is welded shut. At 2 p.m. the starter says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." The 30 drivers rev up their 500-h.p.-plus monsters, creating a thunder that pierces the cotton stuffed in drivers' ears. After two laps...
...brakes, ignition and suspension had all been rebuilt at the Petty garage in Level Cross. The interior was stripped to make way for roll bars and a special, high-backed racing seat. Finally, the doors were bolted shut, so that Petty had to wriggle in and out through the glassless driver's window...