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...necks upstretched, lungs roaring up in desperation. Sweep wider, around a city, a hundred miles, New England. The energy of a million stored-up workday hells turned to fervent belief, poised. All that energy, with a terrific whoosh, tornados up from all around, whirling and curling toward that white dot in the sky, hanging and helpless, dead. But it takes on a strange power, that ball, for it sucks everything in. The cloud rushes into it like the tiny capsule that once spewed out the universe and wants it all back, and takes it, in one horrible gulp, one awesome...
...another team that included Israeli Ambassador to Washington Simcha Dinitz and Mordechai Gazit, the top civil servant in Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's office. An unflappable, subtle and cautious man with a pro nounced aversion to ambiguity, Gazit has been called by Henry Kissinger, not altogether kindly, "Mr. Dot-the-I's-and-Cross-the-Ts." Having left some minor loopholes in their last agreement with the Egyptians, the Israelis are determined not to overlook a thing this time around-hence Gazit's presence. "We just want to be sure of the wording this time," says...
...puddles and occasional faces where they've rested all winter, and look at the trees now and then. But when you're on a ship in the South Atlantic the sky makes your whole world because it blends with the sea out there at infinity. You become a dot floating in a concave covered dish. It was time I pondered the lack of horizons. Three months going down the coast of West Africa on a merchant ship overwhelms you with reality...
...building the Radcliffe gym is a relic of Radcliffe's days as an independent women's college. Fluorescent tubes hang from the ceiling now, but jets for illuminating gas still dot the walls and the leather padded running track and gym nasts rings are definitely the stuff of a bypassed era of athletics...
...There is a logic," protests a defiant Guildenstern at one point, but it is one they will never understand, for their only part is to play their part. And their only repose from doubt and uncertainty, the Go dot they ultimately wait for, is death. Death is an exit, and as the Player puts it, an exit is merely an entrance to somewhere else. Life, on the other hand, "is a gamble at terrible odds," and sometimes you lose 92 times in a roll...