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...athleticism as they move through dusty lots or do a graceful, two-handed vault over a chain-link fence. Their camaraderie is familial, embracing, unselfconsciously homoerotic. Left to their better selves, they can easily go all moony over sunsets, quote great swatches of Robert Frost verse, or fall innocently asleep in each other's arms. Their ideal world is both a womb and a locker room; no women need apply to this dreamy brother hood. With its soft, silvery lighting, its slow fades and dissolves and a lush score (by Carmine Coppola, the director's father), The Outsiders...
...life? Are organizations like the Voluntary Euthanasia Society encouraging suicide by presenting the act as dignified, respectable, even attractive? Koestler's effusion in the how-to book for which he wrote the preface was characteristic of the movement's publications: "The prospect of falling peacefully, blissfully asleep is not only soothing but can make it positively desirable to quit this pain-racked mortal frame...
Police, tipped off by an informant, entered the Toto house two days later and found Toto asleep, breathing heavily: doctors later speculated that the barbiturates he had been given may have saved his life by drastically lowering his metabolism and retarding the bleeding...
...Jill never found out for sure. But they hid behind stacks on D West, in carrel B-20 under the archives of the World Zionist Organization, and on C near Mass Ave (Educ 1028.2) In carrel B-20 after a prolonged skulk up to Level Two, they fell asleep and were awakened rudely at 5:45 by a radio...
...only a glimpse of Jill on the way to the stairs. They switched stair-cases at C level and, out of habit, made for One and home base, which was still dark. Shortly thereafter, the same janitor came along snapping on lights and looked at them pretending to be asleep on desks. He said, "What are you doing here?" and added without waiting for an answer, "Come on with...