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Death in the movies is usually swift and merciful. A gun goes off, and someone's brains are splattered Pollock-like across a wall. Or a blue steel blade flashes in the night, and someone is left crumpled on the carpet, surrounded by a spreading crimson stain. Or an asteroid strikes Earth, and hundreds of colorful New Yorkers are crushed by the Chrysler Building. Sigh. We should all die so crisply and photogenically...
...imperceptibly off-kilter. Like Ronny' missing big toes, there is a sense that something profoundly important lies just out of four sight. The cadence of the sentences resound at the level of a missed heartbeat: "He turned and cut into the sandwich. The yolk was cold, and the blade was much sharper than he'd anticipated." The resonances eventually swell to an emotionally intense climax, as Nathan and Jim's secret about their awful father is drawn to the fore...
DIED. MARK BELANGER, 54, premier fielding shortstop of the 1970s who was a nimble barricade that no ball could pass; of lung cancer; in New York City. Nicknamed Blade, Belanger won eight Gold Gloves in 16 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles...
...struck by the number of commercial vendors peddling their wares at the fair. Alongside the portable hot tubs and incredible vacuum mops (as seen on TV), lies the Miracle Blade 2,000. Slicing tomatoes at an alarming rate, the salesman counts off the numerous features of this precision cutlery. Unimpressed? Stare in wonder as he begins sawing away at a steel hammer with the "knife that never needs sharpening". Buy one receive four free steak knives, all conveniently packaged in plastic...
Shortly before 3 p.m. Friday, more than 25,000 people streamed into Tercentenary Theatre, without so much as a blade of grass in the general seating area subject to security scrutiny...