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...course. Her head and hands twitch programmatically. Another figure, bent like a discus thrower, balances on one foot and listens raptly to a conch shell. A man dressed like a mechanic, a red wrench protruding from his hip pocket, obsessively chalks mathematical equations in the air. A handsome gray steam engine chugs into view. From the pit a chorus raises a wordless three-note chant...
...past decade. While it is probably more important to give a detailed narrative of the earlier years, since less is known of them and they provided the psychological as well as political basis for Arafat's subsequent actions, Kiernan would have strengthened his treatment by not running out of steam before the reader's curiosity runs out. The superficial outline of events from 1965 to 1975 is easily gotten from other sources; Kiernan's knowledge and source material could have been more usefully applied to digging for the dynamics and personalities below those events, as he did with the earlier...
...popular press; and images of this god will be set up in the churches, not as the imagination of each individual painter may fancy him, but established, fixed once and for all by photography. On that day civilization will have reached its peak, and there will be steam-propelled gondolas in Venice...
...then Syracuse revealed its secret weapon, the second half. Led by talented freshmen Roosevelt Bouie and Louis Orr, the Orangemen stifled the Crimson with zone defense and a reinvigorated fast break. The defense chilled both Irion and Honick ("They both just plain ran out of steam," Sanders said) and the running left Harvard puffing and panting to the tune of a 75-48 final score...
...first full day as a reporter on the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times, where he now serves as chief editorial writer. He had spent the summer of '38 on his native Martha's Vineyard, rowing out in a 10-ft. skiff to play harbor patrol to the steam yachts that visited Tisbury. That summer job held its own symbolism. Like thousands of other English majors before and since, the young Allen was waiting for somebody or something to make the connection between literature and life. As he polished off his supper on the evening of Sept...