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...tales blur the line between the superrealistic and the gothic. In "The Gift Horse's Mouth" by R.E. Smith, a rancher's wife has to cut off the head of a dead, possibly rabid mare that had bitten her daughter. In Ian MacMillan's "Proud Monster-Sketches," prisoners of the Nazis bury their own dead: "Returning to the edge of the pit, staggering with exhaustion and aching with hunger, Kratko barely notices that they walk on the girl's back...
Educated and firmly entrenched in the middle class, the Websters have learned quickly how to sell their story and thus keep the search alive. Though they have grimaced or bitten their lips after repeatedly being asked, "But, do you think your daughter is dead," they have always answered politely...
...quarter-inch-layer thickness. Another reason for their high cost is that they contain no artificial preservatives and can be stocked only in small quantities. Of Corné Toison d'Or chocolates, possibly Belgium's finest. Founder Marcel Jo seph Corné says, "They are to be bitten gently with the eyes closed." Perhaps. But true chocophiles mostly pursue their passion with eyes and wallets wide open. A sampler...
...consorting with Producer Jed Harris: "More nights than I care to remember I'd stand there and cry, and then wipe away my tears so that I wouldn't look like a wino on the subway riding uptown. I'd go back to that flea-bitten hotel room and I'd sit in the dark...
Other officials also expressed cautious optimism that the first phase of a construction project proposed last spring would prove successful Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59, however, while acknowledging that he still thinks the work would he completed, said, "We have bitten off a really big job," adding, "things have slipped, we have lost three weeks...