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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dark Angel," the modest herald of Rimbaud's "heyday of assassination." He drives the tricky, mousy little murderer nearly witless with hypnosis and fear. Inevitably too, he is no more enmeshing than enmeshed. In rage and shame as an amateur, a rejected disciple, he is drawn at length into a botched attempt at sexual murder...
...Eighteen of the Fort marched the length of Copacabana's Avenida Atlantica to meet more than 2,000 loyal troops armed with machine guns and small cannon. The Eighteen took to the beach, dug trenches in the sand, made one of the bravest stands in the history of any army. One by one they were picked off-some killed outright, some desperately wounded. Octavio Corrêa was one of the first to die; his blue suit made him an easy mark...
Fanny Burney mentions him. Horace Walpole mentions him. Boswell mentions him. But Thomas Blake Clark's handsomely bound and printed book is the first full-length account of Omai (pronounced Oh, My!), the Polynesian Islander, who for two years (1774-76) was "the lyon of lyons" of London drawing rooms...
Yesterday's manoeuvres held near Worcester made clouds of about 200 feet in length which had grown to three miles by the time they had drifted to Boston...
...book's shortest chapters, and its only bitter one, is a bullfight. The band blasts Cheek to Cheek; the stunted bull comes out, soils himself and trembles when at length he comes to "sense the purpose of his presence"; tries to escape, is tortured into the open ring and dealt loathsome, blundering wounds. Finished off with a dagger, he kneels gently like a child in prayer and his head sinks to earth. The band plays Cheek to Cheek and another little bull trots...