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...work breaks off at the end of Volume I, and perhaps none too soon. Krull is surprisingly funny, but at times the humor is as heavy as Kartoffelklosse-and not helped by a translation that misses much of the hero-villain's comic pomposity. The action falls asleep at one point while Mann delivers himself of a monumental snore : a 20-page lecture on the nature of the universe...
...Kerr, Carpenter lurched to the second-floor apartment of 31-year-old Leonard Powell, a burly (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.) truck driver. Tottering, dripping blood, "looking crazy," Carpenter forced his way in at gunpoint, ordered Powell and his wife, Stella, into the living room. Diane, 3, was asleep. Robert, 7, came in to say goodnight. Powell stared silently at Carpenter, nodded at his pistol. Gunman Carpenter put it out of sight until the boy went to his bed. Stella helped make bedsheet bandages, obediently fed the guest bananas and milk as Carpenter sprawled on the couch, a shaky...
...sometimes when Frankie is left alone-the thing he seems to hate the most in life. If that should happen, he may ring up a girl he has known for many years. When she arrives, they sit and talk and talk until the sun comes up or she falls asleep, and then Frank may wander next door to have breakfast with Jimmy van Heusen, the songwriter and Sinatra friend. So begins another day in the Arabian Nights of Frank Sinatra...
...brilliant career into the depths of insignificance." In the depths of insignificance, Edith Stein changed. She who had often been cool and aloof found herself wearing a red wig and performing a Chaucerian skit during a convent entertainment; she who had been intolerant of weakness learned charity by falling asleep during meditation. In time, says Author Graef, "Edith Stein became a perfectly harmonious spiritual personality...
...sleepy master sergeant. Said Bourque: "I figure it would be something to tell my kids I was the first air cadet in the U.S." Sixteen hours and 45 minutes later, Bourque and 305 other members of the first class at the U.S. Air Force Academy were sound asleep after a double-timed day that included drill, a dedication ceremony, physical examinations (one cadet had measles), lectures, assignments, hazing, uniform issue and an allowance ($3 for the rest of July...