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...merely testimony; the writer's own narration takes over, and memory and present time wash in and out. Now and then - always sparingly, and never with the self-indulgence common to word-drunk young novelists - the images thicken to a rich impressionism. Danner, at seven, falling asleep and hearing the half-understood noises of her parents' lovemaking, fantasizes about horses that "are dark like blood and gleam with a black sheen; the animals swim hard in the air to get higher, and Danner aches to stay with them ... In the dream it is the horse pressed against...
...Bill Earnhardt, 24, of Wycombe, Pa., in the water near by, reached out, and yanked him by the arm 'into the raft. They were among the lucky ones. The Marques went down in less than a minute. "I can guarantee that everybody who was in their cabins asleep would not have the slightest idea of what had happened," said Sefton...
...high floor down the stairwell with such unintended precision of timing that the deluge passed the last floor just as a proctor stepped out into the bottom of the stairwell. There was a direct hit on an upturned face. (My roommate and I were in bed and sound asleep by the time the proctor, moving rapidly, reached our, lower, floor.) And I remember two other events, both sponsored, I believe, by the Lampoon. A distraught "mother," whose baby carriage had inexplicably and suddenly become engulfed in flames in front of Sever at exactly 11 o'clock one morning...
...owned his shop in Central Square, a bar was right next door. One night, remembers Papalimberis, a drunk marine came from the bar and demanded George give him a shave. George complied, sat his customer in a chair and promptly threw hot towels over his face. The marine fell asleep and after he woke up. Papalimberis told him that he had been shaved. The drunkard paid George and came back the next day (drunk again) demanding a shave...
...durable as Teflon and have the aftertaste of Tang. Spielberg has tapped into the moviegoer's childlike imagination with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, E.T. and his upcoming production of Gremlins-fables of the sort that touch every eight-year-old just before he falls asleep. Or just after...