Word: concussional
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Before Carter's inaugural address in Atlanta, a cannon salute boomed over the capitol lawn, belching smoke over the statues of Tom Watson and former Governor Eugene Talmadge, two premier practitioners of the old politics of racism. The concussion shattered windows in a state office building across the street...
Last was a leopard shark, billeted in close quarters, looking bilious and rapacious. I watched him swim urgently into the wall, forced to close a circle despite his desire to strike out on a straight line; the passion for linearity, the fatality of circularity, the bleak, self-depleting alternation of...
Still, if one can take Nunquam as a sideshow, the minor Durrell delights are there. Who else would write, "The cinema is the No play of the Yes-Man"? And where else, in the year 1970, is there a novelist inclined to describe the aftereffects of a concussion as "darkness...
Touching First Base. At a court hearing in Wilkes-Barre last week, Dinis did not specify what he expected to learn from an autopsy on Mary Jo's body. His associate, Assistant D.A. Armand Fernandes Jr., argued that to hold an inquest without an autopsy would be "like hitting...
Sir: No mention has been made of whether or not the Senator was wearing shoes when he returned to the hotel. As anyone who has taken a lifesaving course can testify, swimming and diving are very difficult with shoes on. Senator Kennedy, after suffering a concussion and in a state...