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...over in a minute. The engineer waves. These are friendly / apparitions; they wave back. Several passengers sight the dancers and flash broad smiles. As the last car crosses the trestle, the sun comes out for the first time all day, and at the same time, it begins to rain. "You made it rain! You made it rain!" Bridey shouts. "You made lightning...
...Poor buggers!" says Merz, talking about her rhinos. Her eyes now flash bright indignation. "It is a sin and a crime that animals should be driven to the brink of extinction, especially by something as idiotic as a dagger handle!" The situation of the rhino is bleak. In 1970 there were 20,000 of them in Kenya. Now there are considerably fewer than 500. It strikes a visitor that Merz's rhinos live like a child kept in a germ-free bubble because of some defect in the immune system. The germs are the poachers. With rhino horns worth about...
...forwards MacDonald (18 goals, 13 assists for 31 points), Barakett (16-13--29) and Allen Bourbeau (10-15--25) show their usual flash, DeGironimo will have his hands full...
...preliminary flash estimates on fourth-quarter GNP and unemployment late Friday afternoon,' Reston replied. 'I'm afraid ((it's)) about to hit the fan, Paul...
...master plans, unswerving belief in the officer class -- were fatally irrelevant to a guerrilla war. Forget the World War II narrative line of tanks and tactics, which moved with the ponderous sweep of a Golden Age Hollywood plot. Viet Nam, set in jungles without beginning or end, was a flash of episodic, aleatory explosions; it was modernism brought to war. And a new kind of war demanded a new look at the war-movie genre. Platoon fills the bill. It is a huge black slab of remembrance, chiseled in sorrow and anger -- the first Viet Nam Memorial movie...