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When it was over, and houses instead grew in the hill, those trees that had been spared dreamed of their comrades for years afterward and their nightmare mutterings annoyed the diamond backs who left them for the new growth that came to life spaces the sun saw for the first time...
Rechecking rooms at 1:15 p.m. to replace some used towels, the maid found Hinckley in the room, wearing a light-colored jacket, sport shirt and casual pants. He stood by the bathroom door and watched without expression as she hung the towels. Shortly afterward he left for the Hilton. It was almost a mile away, less than a half-hour walk. If he went by cab or bus, he was unnoticed...
Nevertheless, this show is a real feat of scholarship, and nobody can come out of it without some sharply revised opinions on both the origins of modern art and the nature of 19th century French painting as a whole. Afterward, however, one should go and look at some Monets -to rinse the eyes. -By Robert Hughes
...authors dream of writing a perennial: a book that not only sells well for a season but continues to sprout on bedside tables and school reading lists for years afterward. John Knowles, 54, did just that with his first novel, A Separate Peace (1960). Its story of prep school rivalry and love, set in the early 1940s against a distant but beckoning war, seemed to many a near perfect distillation of adolescence, a nostalgic memoir about an end to innocence and an athlete dying young...
...Apparently, safety supervisors erred in clearing the technicians to go into the craft. Before a launch rehearsal, it is standard procedure to use nonflammable nitrogen to flush oxygen-laden air out of the engine compartment, where even the slightest friction or electrical spark can touch off a deadly fire. Afterward, the technicians, all of whom had considerable experience working with the shuttle, went into the nitrogen-saturated compartment without their air packs, the portable breathing systems used in hazardous atmospheres. Since nitrogen can neither be seen nor smelled, the five technicians were overcome before they were aware of the danger...