Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like sidewalk superintendents, jazz fans like to watch and listen to a clicking combo even if they know little about what is actually going on. The least among the initiates can watch a hot lick go sailing from one performer to another like a hot rivet, and appreciate the way it gets deftly caught and driven home before it combo. When such a flurry of faster and faster tosses is completed without disaster, the jazz fan has a tendency to laugh his appreciation out loud...
From New York Adlai flew on to Chicago, where he was greeted by a handful of Democratic notables and Stevenson "volunteers"-including a girl fan who kicked off her shoes so that she wouldn't look taller than her hero. Chicago newsmen, tying Stevenson down to domestic politics, found him still the old quipster...
...such is the long, slapping arm of coincidence in this novel-the chicken turns out to be Claude, a long-lost childhood sweetheart. Francois first knew Claude Herber and her brother Jean Jacques when they were children and lived in the country together, roaming the woods like a junior fan club for the Marquis de Sade. They played flogging games with horsewhips. Lashing Claude and another playmate, Denise, had been the best fun of all-"so sweet." Claude murmured, fondling her wound, "that afterwards one would like to be whipped again...
...bunker, on the long, dusty truck rides that bruised his bones, he talked of "The Big R" (rotation) and "The Little R" (rest and rehabilitation leave in Japan). He knew to the day when he could expect to go home -"if too much stuff doesn't hit the fan and use up all the replacements," or if the brass didn't "push the panic button" and freeze rotation for a while...
...rain that lashed the green Ruhr Valley, one sleek Mercedes after another swung off the highway and pulled up in the courtyard of a big white farmhouse. Well-fed, important-looking Germans hurried inside. A movie-fan would have guessed that some plot was afoot...