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Like a Pharaoh's tomb, the stage is stocked with the relics of a bygone life: a clutter of armoires and grandfather clocks, quaint archaic radios and phonographs, fringed lampshades and a golden harp. A man in a policeman's uniform slowly enters the attic room and sniffs the dust of decades. He walks over to the harp and plucks at a string. It is slack, jangled and flat-an omen of the theatrical evening to come...
...THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time...
...THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time...
...about the capital's security checkpoints. He notified the police, who began to set up road and street blocks to intercept the assassins. Even so, they got within several hundred yards of the Blue House before police sighted and challenged them. A brief battle ensued, in which a policeman and a guerrilla were killed, and one young guerrilla, Lieut. Shin Jo Kim, was captured. The rest of the North Koreans escaped, and a nationwide man hunt spread out to catch them before they could get back through the DMZ. By week's end all but ten had been...
Blood seeped through the student's shirt as he lay writhing on a suburban street in Evanston, Ill.. Sirens screamed as an ambulance rushed to the scene, emergency bandages and tourniquets held at the ready. A policeman ran toward the accident-and then stopped in horror and anger. Glaring at the onlooker with the camera, who made no attempt to help the sufferer, he roared: "What do you think you're doing?" "Making a movie," came the mild reply. Suddenly aware that the blood looked suspiciously like ketchup, the cop sighed: "Everybody's making a movie...