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...flash of triumph soon turned to ash. Soon after the momentous discovery, Van Schaik's friend of 20 years and chief collaborator, an Acehnese named Idrusman, was returning from Jakarta by bus one evening when anti-Jakarta fighters stopped the vehicle and singled out the non-Acehnese for execution. Idrusman made the mistake of speaking up for three Javanese colleagues with whom he was traveling. All four had their throats cut. Van Schaik abandoned his mission soon afterward. He now spends most of his time teaching at Duke University in North Carolina and has never been able to return...
...pirates of the Caribbean didn't get "rapin' overtime" b) salary demands weren't met c) Chip 'n Dale not given domestic-partner benefits d) won't rehire Flash Mountain...
...Texan essentially reinvented himself after serving in WWII (he took part in the Battle of the Bulge), and taking advantage of the G.I. Bill to study at the Sorbonne. He eliminated his twang in favor of a precise, nearly British cadence, his Lone Star patois giving way to a flash, mockingly hip mixture of jazz lingo, eccentric abbreviations of names (as in "Sam" Beckett and "tip-top Tenn" Williams), the errant French phrase, and the occasional dip backward into down-home aphorisms...
...Southern's first novel, "Flash and Filigree" (1958), was written under the influence of Henry Green, a dialogue-driven, slightly surreal British novelist of the same period. The book is constructed around three masterful set pieces: a curious encounter between a creepy doctor and his long-winded patient; the taping of a TV game show called "What's My Disease?"; and what is without a doubt the ultimate '50s seduction-in-a-drive-in scene. Southern's dialogue is priceless, as the girl implores her fevered date, "...please don't, really don't please Ralph I can't darling...
...game's end did not come soon enough for the Crimson. Just when Harvard was set to put itself the driver's seat in the Ivy League race, Wente hit his shot, Princeton prevailed and in a flash, the Crimson was never the same...