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...forthcoming 50-page handbook put out by Bristol's Abson Press will try to make Briticisms comprehensible to Americans, and Americanisms to Britons. The glossary, which has more than 200 Americanisms, advises the newly arrived American housewife that when she goes shopping for diapers, a baby carriage, a flashlight and a vacuum cleaner, she should ask for nappies, a pram, a torch and a hoover. The housewife will find that while there are no eggplants or zucchini in the food stores, aubergines and courgettes taste exactly like them. If she finds it all too baffling and wants to return...
...paintings. His visitors drove the car down to Jamul. After 8 a.m., smoke turned the sky to midnight. In gathering panic, Greene walked, then ran down the road toward the town, dropping the large pendulum clock that he meant to save. "I fell down," Greene remembers. "I had a flashlight, but I still couldn't see a thing. Sparks were falling all around me. I got lost in the chaparral. Finally I found a water pipe and followed it down...
...Charlie. And he gave me a big hug." Says Elliott: "Charlie Lowe is exactly like Fagin. Whoever got any of the bread, if there was any to be had, the kids sure as hell didn't. Every once in a while we'd get a pastrami sandwich or a flashlight or something. God, Charlie Lowe may have my picture hanging up there in his studio! God knows, he's probably the first person who's responsible for my being conscious of what the hell show business is. But I had such negative conditioning that it made it about impossible...
...recently were pleasantly surprised at the ease with which they could enter the expressway. Instead of the usual pile-up along the ramp, car after car moved effortlessly into the mainstream of traffic. Drivers barely glanced back to look for an opening. They did not have to. Like the flashlight of a theater usher, moving green lights at the edge of the ramp led them surely and safely up and out onto the highway...
...many ways, the story of Western civilization is the search for a flashlight. Statues are built to those who can cast even dim light on the next few steps of our dark lives. Bach may have been the Fifth Apostle. In that case, the light would have come from his halo...