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...late-winter sun shone all week. The "Today" show set up by the opera house to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo ops clogged the botanical gardens. The sunny phrase "no worries," a curious affirmation against doomfulness, was heard over and over, as was a new quintessentially Australian sentiment: " 'Ey, all we 'ave to do is beat Atlanta! Not a very...
...target Lee in the first place. Both rulings threatened to make a trial unpleasant for the government. Lee's lawyers planned to portray him as an unlikely spook, more bumbling and naive than clever and secretive, who had asked for a colleague's help in moving the files - curious tradecraft...
...Curious onlookers gather around the building, wondering what could possibly attract such a full-scale police response...
...that the content of '50s anti-art, however loud or lurid, was harmless. (OK, except for comics like EC's "Vault of Horror," with its ripely illustrated cautionary tales of deceit and dismemberment.) And a third was, well, me: a kid who was as naive as he was curious. When Little Richard wailed, "I saw Uncle John with bald-head Sally/ He saw Aunt Mary comin' and he ducked back in the alley," I'm not sure I knew he was singing of an adulterous quickie; and if I did, I'm not sure I thought it had anything...
...that was the upshot of my story in Rochester. Aging male, out of shape ("deconditioned") but in pretty good shape for the shape I'm in. Knock, knock. I have the cholesterol levels of an 18-year-old, in case you're curious, which is highly unjust, considering the eggs and cheese and beef I've snarfed, the zero hours of aerobic exercise, and thank God for His Unjustice. Knock, knock. That is all I have to say on the subject at this time, and there will be no questions, thank...