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...Wotch it Chally!" the fireman yelled, just as the torch popped the placard into flames. The other fireman jumped and threw the sign to the ground, where it was stamped to ashes by other men in blue...
...long hot dogs were going great. Duck-tailed farm boys and their girls rode the Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket and tickle my belly button"). The geek (lowest operator on the lot, a man who pretends...
When the Swiss scientist was awakened, it was 2 a.m. in the dreary Tuscan hamlet of Baccinello (pop. 400). But Paleontologist Johannes Hurzeler leaped from bed in a blink. In a coal seam 600 ft. under the village, a miner's torch had lighted an ancient white bone. Down in the depths Hurzeler dug farther with trembling care. Last week he ended a nine-year treasure hunt, exhumed the first complete fossil skeleton of an Oreopithecus ("mountain ape"). The age of the coal: 10 million years...
...comes in the form of "The Man what brings the heat." Most everybody is on the weed. Nick watches his own mother get hooked and degenerate into a slavering junkie who pads down with anybody who will give her the money for her morning fix. Inevitably, Nick starts to torch up himself. His salvation is Magazine Writer Holloway, who is doing a series of taped interviews on the dope trade...
...some point of adolescence, every schoolboy falls distantly in love with an actress. Few do as complete a job as Anthony, the downbeat narrator of this new novel, who carries the torch for his actress over a stretch of 18 years and then, lamentably, achieves gratification...