Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazil's outside right, Manoel ("Garrincha") dos Santos, nudged the ball delicately. A French defender charged. Casually, Garrincha faked his man out of his shoes and set up a neat play in front of the French goal. Then Garrincha took a return pass and booted away at the corner of the goal. He missed by inches, but the crowd settled back with a satisfied sigh. The final score (Brazil 5, France 2) was a foregone conclusion. Brazil's soft, pinpoint passes, incredibly skilled dribbling and booming scoring shots added up to the finest play yet seen...
...Salaud, Cambridge, seven-thirty in the morning. The time-less, homeward, flat-foot tread of the night-cop down Plympton Street; the inchoate giggle of a street-corner Horatio in a black leather jacket; two red eyes in the shadows...
...little league, the baby carriage brigade and the woman shoppers; the subterranean rumble of the subway, the distant cacophony of bells, the mingled shouts of children and clash of pin-ball machines. Saddened (perhaps by the morning's news or the "No Loitering" sign), Harold sometimes sits at the corner table by the window and counts green book bags passing by or reads Kafka or sublimates with secretaries on their way to work...
...quarter--plus a carton of coffee which serves as mouthwash and handwarmer. Through the window he watches Boylston Street humanity and the Western demise of the sun. Harold has been known to mumble a few words about the weather to either Mr. Nemo or the corner cop--but they are measured words...
...come. A series of heavy rainstorms drenched the dangerous track and dimmed visibility. Five crackups, one a three-way collision, followed in rapid succession. With good equipment and good driving, no one was seriously hurt. Then, roaring through pitch black night into the tricky stretch that leads to the corner called Tertre Rouge, French Driver Jean Mary (real name: Jean Brousselet) drove head on into a steep embankment. His Jaguar bounced back into the path of an onrushing Ferrari. Somehow the Ferrari driver, Los Angeles' Bruce Kessler, dived from his seat just before the explosive crash, and escaped death...