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...common touch, Blackpool's history is alight with great names of show business-W. C. Fields. Bea Lillie, Danny Kaye, Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead. But none of them could rewrite the Blackpool creed. "You can't be chichi in Blackpool" is how one Blackpudlian phrases it. "It's not art for art's sake here. It's art for Pete's sake, and Pete owns the town...
...proteins and similar chemicals. This process may have been repeated billions of times in different places, generating during each repetition many billions of microspheres. Eventually, one of them happened to have in its membrane the proper chemical wherewithal for a dim sort of life. Once this spark was alight, the great parade of evolution, from bacteria up to man, was a natural consequence...
...most worrisome is the plight of the U.S. Negro. As he sees it, the best way to end discrimination would be for Negroes to rise in arms against the imperialists in Washington, taking their cue from Castro's own revolt. "What would happen," he asks, his eyes alight at the possibility, "if the Negroes in the Southern U.S., so often lynched, were each given a rifle...
...glasses." After breakfast she would rush out into her garden like a starved animal. On visiting someone else's garden, she often "separated the sepals of flowers . . . smelled them . . . crumpled the leaves, chewed them, licked the poisonous berries and the deadly mushrooms . . . attracted bees and wasps, letting them alight on her hands and scratching their backs. 'They like that,' " she said. "Like a bacchante after libations," she would stumble along, "nose and . . . forehead covered with yellow pollen, her hair in disorder and full of twigs, a bump here and a scratch there...
...house before which the tank was parked. Says Ferenc: "I was very frightened. Here I was with a 13-year-old boy and a bottle of gasoline." Ferenc put a handkerchief in the mouth of the bottle, tipped the bottle up to soak it with gas, set the handkerchief alight and dropped the "benzine flash" on the rear end of the tank. Says he: "An enormous flame shot up, and the whole street looked like day. There was a terrible explosion, and the front part of the roof started to cave in. The boy and I ran to the chimney...