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...Vorkuta, each camp is surrounded by a twelve-foot-high barbed-wire fence. Inside the fence is a prohibited zone within which the guards in the towers shoot at sight. There are powerful arc lamps every 10 or 15 yards along the wire and during the long hours of winter darkness the prohibited zone is as bright as day. Beyond the camp is the tundra, where guards sit in camouflaged dugouts scanning the undulating landscape with field glasses, and slow-flying biplanes circle looking for suspicious movement. The Komi receive a reward for every escaped prisoner they hand over...
...sections dominated by Parisian scenes, Johnson gazing at Taylor, wild parties, and family conflict over the baby. The confusing result has been to leave the impression that The Last Time I Saw Paris is not much more than pointless meandering between a fake left bank bistro and a cardboard Arc de Triomphe...
...tempo and tears off on a remote pulse of his own. He grabs huge fistfuls of notes, builds them into a sonata-size movement that ignores the divisions of the stock 32-bar chorus. The notes grow progressively more dissonant. Brubeck's head weaves in a wide arc. His fingers seem to take on a life of their own. At this point, both musicians and laymen in the audience are apt to wonder whether Brubeck will ever be able to make it back to home base. He creates an illusion of danger, as if he were a race driver...
When Philadelphia Merchant John Wanamaker branched out to New York in 1896, he soon made his new store as famed an institution as his Philadelphia emporium. A born pressagent, he attracted customers to his store at Broadway and Ninth Street with such gimmicks as concerts and the then-new arc lights. Canny old John Wanamaker also brought along his newfangled merchandising ideas, e.g., the one-price system, the customer-is-always-right policy, honest advertising...
...home plate and save the ball game. In the tenth, the score tied 2-2 and two men on, Durocher called on "Dusty" Rhodes, his first-rate, second-string outfielder, who had been a sensational pinch hitter all season. Dusty Rhodes popped the first pitch into a lazy arc along the rightfield foul line, and a light breeze wafted it over the high green grandstand barrier for a home run that broke up the game...