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This summer Cheng's Methodist friends had another mystery to ponder: strange bumping noises that came out of the deserted church by night. Early one morning last week a pair of private detectives, called in by Mr. Ransom, heard a trap door to the church attic slam. Together with Ann Arbor police, they climbed up, swept their flashlights about the attic. There, crouched above them in the rafters, was Cheng...
...plus-eight, the battle still hammering in the outskirts, the British doctors got their last breath of hope when they looked out of an attic window across the eight flat miles that separated them from the main body of Montgomery's bogged-down army. They saw "an almost continuous line of flashes that illuminated the horizon like footlights." Said one surgeon: "Monty always begins his attacks this way. They should reach here tomorrow." Another replied: "About bloody time, too." Next day all was still. The barrage was a final concentration to cover the last retreat of ist Airborne...
...Armstrong linoleum ("It illustrates precisely that a really good approach need never be changed but only varied. Armstrong's promise has never changed. It is what you can do in a house or a room or an attic with imagination and with Armstrong's help...
...trouble is that young Duluoz does not matter. As a brash, noisemaking ten-year-old, he lived in a world full of wonders; as a teenager, he seems gross and unimaginative. Maggie Cassidy was taken, like most of Kerouac's recently published books, from an apparently limitless attic filled before On the Road appeared. For the literary taxidermist, such finds can be profitable. "In the bleak, birds squeak," the Beat One interjects during a soliloquy. This specimen, with its weird vein of Gertrude Stein, should be stuffed, mounted, labeled, and sent to the Smithsonian Institution...
...offerings of one Aaron Shikler, to name the author of three objects among the several works which I found on a par with the average products of the Washington Square Arts Festival. In general, the many minor objects randomly interspersed among the major works gives the impression of an "attic" rather than "Attic" sort of collection. Nor shall I absolve the Busch from the equally random method of installation accorded the exhibition. The installation of three sculptures in one case, one on top of the other, has never been the dream of the artgoer, and the use of different levels...