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When he looks at the stars, frantically shuffling his charts, eyeglasses and flashlight, Mr. Palomar attracts a knot of wondering spectators. His behavior in a Paris cheese store, drawing sketches of various brands, makes other customers shake their heads. The dedicated observer has become a spectacle...
...younger sisters. This removed the fear from my soul and transferred it right into theirs. One story was about the old World War II % flier who had been rotting in our closet for 20 years. I took a plastic skull you buy in a model shop and put a flashlight inside so the eyes and face would glow; then I put my dad's World War II aviator cap over the skull and put goggles over the eyeholes. At night, I'd dare them to peek into the closet. They wanted to see it, and they didn't want...
...wire whisks the size of basketballs suspended from a rack. From down a dim passageway comes the sound of boots crunching glass underfoot, and out into the light appears a rat patrol, four hard hats spreading poison. From the darkest corners the beams of contractors carrying out inspections by flashlight dance around like fireflies...
...about 30 lying in a row underneath the roaring traffic of Los Angeles' San Diego Freeway. Next to Villa's mattress stands a cardboard Perrier carton that contains most of his worldly possessions: a toothbrush, a tube of Colgate toothpaste, a cracked and yellowing bar of soap, a flashlight and a beginner's manual of English. Villa looks 13, but he claims to be 16. Every morning he hikes over to the "slave market" on Sawtelle Boulevard and hangs around with other youths until someone drives up and offers him $30 for a day's work shoveling gravel or moving...
Black & Decker, founded in 1910, has long experience with battery-powered tools. Astronauts carried its portable drills to the moon. In the mid-1970s the company introduced a power handle with drill, flashlight, hedge-trimmer and vacuum attachments. The product failed, though, because consumers often forgot to recharge the batteries. But when the handle was joined permanently to the vacuum alone, a success was born...