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...come pursuing him--and they inevitably do--across the vacant plain. Karl witnesses these ritualistic encounters with second generation Zabala men, whose fathers Barbarosa had killed during the past 30 years, during his first meeting with Barbarosa. A gunshot suddenly resounds, and a bullet grazes the unflinching Barbarosa's cheek. Instinctively Barbarosa shoots the young man rushing at him. Afterwards, he gently kisses the face of the dead young man and murmurs in all sincerity. "They're damn good people...
...Pope's meeting with Yasser Arafat [Sept. 27] may represent the Christian charity of turning the other cheek, but it desecrates the memory of those Christians who were murdered by the P.L.O...
While some passengers took pains to collect their baggage, others jumped the aisles, making their way to the yellow fire-resistant chutes that unfurled outside the emergency exits. Just before sliding down to safety, Stanley Miller of Rego Park, N.Y., turned to look back; his left cheek, ear and arm were seared by flames. Said he: "I shall never forget the screaming, never." Miraculously, most of those aboard, including the pilot and ten crew members, managed to get out of the plane. But 50, most of them seated in the rear of the plane, died in the inferno...
...most part Sy believes you create what you will, but he also believes one creates what others will for him. The stony face he wears now-the wary eyes resting on the bulging cheek bones, the rare smile that never shows wide enough for warmth-it was not always his look. In Elmira, he says, "I learned how to be hard and cold. I was neither before. I used to dislike fighting so much that if I ever did get into a fight with a kid, I couldn't even hit him in the face. That...
...Charlotte, starting with the sound; as in many current productions, the microphones have been so amplified that Gerald Jay Markoe's songs lose much of their tunefulness and practically blast back-row patrons out of their seats. Nevertheless, Markoe shows a gift for hummability in tongue-in-cheek ballads, including Liverpool Sunset...