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...Judith Shaak-the dark-haired young woman a little off to one side, whose restless, measuring eyes say teacher-this exuberant encounter between the very living and the very dead is no random happening. The little girls chasing lizards around the sandy grave of Madison Starke Perry (1814-1865), the fourth Governor of Florida, and the boys swigging Coke while making tombstone rubbings with brilliant red crayons are members of the Enrichment Class for Life and Death at the Myra Terwilliger Elementary School, now in session. And Mrs. Shaak-in her third year of leading dry runs through the Valley...
...world pressed in. There was nothing around me. No towns, no houses, no power lines--nothing blocked out the desert and sky but the edge of the road, the broken glass in the run-offs. It wasn't the American Dream, but it was an acceptable substitute: the random and the strange. Driving down 70 could not fit anymore into my easy categories--the images flowing past my windshield demanded my attention. The television mode with its comforting torpor collapsed in the face of scenes no screen could capture...
...BOER WAR by Thomas Pakenham; Random House; 718 pages...
FROM THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT by Mavis Gallant Random House; 243 pages...
Seven hundred and fifty National Guardsmen, 200 highway patrolmen, 175 city policemen, tanks, and two helicopters guarded the funeral procession. The governor declared a state of emergency and issued an unlimited search warrant allowing officers to search at random and arrest anyone carrying a weapon...