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...automatic sprinkler system opened up, spraying curtains of water into the lower-deck compartments. But the magnesium-fed fire continued to burn, turning sections of the flight deck above into a sizzling skillet. Choking clouds of dense, dirty-grey smoke poured through seven decks of the Oriskany's forward sections. Two more blasts sent flames belching along the flight deck, where red-shirted ordnance experts worked feverishly to jettison 500-lb., 1,000-lb.and 2,000-lb. bombs they dumped dozens overboard into...
...cold, grey rain pelted the turrets of Wormwood Scrubs as the 320 prisoners of D block began their nightly "free-association period." Inmates gathered in the block's communal hall to watch the telly or drifted into one another's open cells for an hour and a half of convivial chatter before lights-out. Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul. There, over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soir...
...Greek bearing gifts of a Mercourial nature can only squander them in this lurid, leaden adaptation of a novel by Marguerite Duras, who also wrote Hiroshima, Mon Amour. While the screen moodily changes color, turning from light sepia to silvery grey and all but blushing with shame, Melina plays up the purple of her role as a sort of sick Samaritan. "How do you stond dee pain?" she wheezes, speaking of life itself. "Geev me a dhrink, Paul." But liquor is the least of her problems. Voyeurism and incipient lesbianism are enough to make any young matron restive...
...steps. They lean against a side block or let their bodies sag forward until only the support of a forearm wedged between chin and knee prevents them from closing completely around themselves. A vinyl handbag lies near-by and its bright color is a surprise against the grey stone and gray...
...took to wearing unpressed suits and a soft grey shirt and, writes Thompson, "brought his arrogance and grouchiness under at least temporary control. His remarks were usually cheerful, witty, mischievously playful." Thompson concludes this phase of Frost's life with the newly successful poet preparing at 40 to return to America. Frost's ambition now was to find a farm in New England where he could "live cheap and get Yankier and Yankier." He did, and so did his work...