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...gray and lavender sky, feeling as though he too is lying with the victims who struggle in burnt-orange groups at the bottom of the painting. A lone gantry pushed ladderlike toward the dying sun, but stops and returns to the ground with its own image of circular death, the builder's wrecking ball, suspended over the death-groups...
...holy horns of Beelzebub, if I bust my biler, I'll run that blasted critter down." The tender was emptied into the boiler, and the fireman sat on the safety-valve, and we ploughed along like an enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still that calf kept a "lectle mite ahead," now and then playfully tapping the boiler front with its hind feet. At last it was too much for patience; Bill madly pulled the throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately,- sp-t-t-t-r,- the boiler ripped, all the water...
...demonstration began with a circular march in 20-degree cold outside Holyoke Center but moved to University Hall after protesters found themselves barred from the Personnel Office...
What are the webs made of? Of guilt, Laing seems to say-unnecessary, irrational guilt, perhaps resulting from fantasied childhood "wrongs" and from tortuous, circular reasoning about causes and effects. When a parent is angry, a child is sure that he is unloved because of his "badness." Thus...
...fellow prisoners. He gets no pay, whereas his former salary was $100,000 a year. Polite but somewhat remote from other inmates, Hoffa lifts barbells in the prison gym, attends church services, does a lot of reading and takes periodic walks round the prison's quarter-mile circular track. He may not walk out of the prison gates for many years. Rejected for parole in 1969, he gets a second chance this March. But if his current appeals fail, he faces four more five-year sentences on charges that he misused union funds...