Word: deliriums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oldfashioned, mebbe, but Troy, Ohio, Feed Mill Owner Russell Stacy Altman, 76, just didn't trust banks completely. Now 10-gal. milk cans buried near the mill, that's a different thing. So last month, in delirium on his deathbed at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, Altman told his son and daughter about the milk cans. They thought it was a little strange, but nevertheless, after a decent interval, they decided to dig around a little. By the end of last week they had unearthed three of them, stuffed with...
...DeLuxe Color is tastefully mixed, and the camera is held by a master (Giuseppe Rotunno). What's more, the camera is pointed at something fiercely beautiful: Sicily. Yellow palazzi peep through dark-green foliage like colossal lemons; vast rococo ball rooms drown the mind in a delirium of pink cherubs and gilt-plaster scrolls; and out of the dark-blue sea the big Sicilian mountains leap like orange flames...
Little Simon, creeping away from the others, discovers the corpse and in the book's most terrifying and significant passage he encounters the pig's fly-infested head on the stick. In a delirium he hears it speak. "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill. I'm the Beast. You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are? Come now," said the Lord of the Flies. "Get back...
...bleeding from tiny vessels around the eyes, and blood in the urine. After about a week, many of the victims turned as cold as a morgue slab before they died. Survivors presented a pitiable sight for weeks, with bleeding gums and persistent tremor, and often in a state of delirium or stupor...
...Arab world last week reeled in a delirium of joy. Damascus Radio repeatedly shrieked, "Ahlan Bil Wahda!" (Welcome to union). When Syrian soldiers sent bursts of tracer bullets streaking against the night sky, the radio announcer hastily told his excited listeners that it was not revolution but jubilation. THE DREAM HAS COME TRUE! headlined a Beirut paper. Aleppo nearly exploded: its main streets became a sea of screaming humanity, and cars inched along honking their horns to the rhythm...