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...proves it. Her Cromwell is vast and conscientious. She has read every biography, pored through every broadside of the times, considered every malicious rumor, and records them all before rendering her own considered opinion. The result is sometimes tedious, but Lady Antonia is obviously intent on leaving no flank exposed to attack by scholarly predators...
...which the poet's vision was conceived and, through the labors of his imagination, finally born. William Blake is the poem's guiding light, almost its midwife, but its inspiration lay in the words of the Mexican poet, Cesar Vallejo: "Then where is the cry of this other flank if, to estimate it as a whole, it breaks now from the bed of man." Eshleman saw through this line that the poetic imagination must be given birth, that "artistic bearing and fruition were physical as well as mental...
...Rama's intentions unknown, decisions have to be made. The nearest humans to Rama are Commander Bill Norton and his crew aboard the spaceship Endeavour. They undertake a reconnaissance of Rama's innards, crawling about the spotless metal sky like flies on some behemoth's twitching flank...
...McDonald's hamburger every five minutes, it would take him 114,000 years of nonstop munching to consume 12 billion burgers. If all the cattle that have ever laid down their lives for McDonald's were to be resurrected for a reunion, they would stand flank-by-jowl over an area larger than Greater London...
...criminal lawyer from Providence, R.I. "Give me the file marked confidential," he said to a captain. "Aerial photos taken this morning indicate a SAM location and a rudimentary airfield." "Excuse me, sir," warned a crew-cut major, "we just got a report that something is moving on the left flank. It could be pretty sticky...