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Americans are finding new romance in an old flame...
...government, business and labor attended a state funeral for Schleyer. As police sharpshooters perched on the rooftops of buildings that surrounded St. Eberhard's Church, President Walter Scheel in his eulogy described the struggle against terrorism as "the fight of civilization against barbarians." Declared Scheel: "If this flame is not smothered immediately, the brushfire will spread over the whole world...
There is a moment in Holy the Firm when Annie Dillard watches a candle flame consume a golden female moth. The moth's abdomen catches in the wet wax and her wings "ignited like tissue paper, enlarging the circle of light in the clearing." Her antennae crackle, her legs disappear and her body is reduced to a glowing shell. "And then," relates Dillard, "this moth-essence, this spectacular skeleton, began to act as a wick ... She burned for two hours, until I blew...
...moth and the flame is an old device that Dillard uses in a fresh manner...
...account, Decca made an odd sort of Communist. She drummed up attendance to party rallies with flame-colored flyers that read: CHICKEN DINNERS LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE. FREE-FLOWING LIQUOR. 20 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 20. Whether investigating police brutality in Oakland in the '40s or leading a White Women's Delegation to Mississippi to appeal the case of convicted Rapist Willie McGee in 1951, Mitford the Marxist seemed to operate with a touch of what she called "high jinks." Missions might be missions, but why could they not also be "a thrilling adventure," or at least "a welcome...