Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With long, lordly wo-o-ofs, cheery B-flat chirps and an occasional deep commanding harrumph, the glistening silver serpent curls through a land its ancestors helped define. It may not inhabit the terrain much longer. Like the Furbish lousewort and the snail darter, the Southern Crescent is an endangered species. The aging Crescent is the nation's last lavish, privately run, long-haul passenger train. But its owner, the highly profitable and efficient Southern Railway System, claims to have lost $6.7 million last year on the Crescent's Washington-New Orleans...
...love zooming down a hill or along a flat space with the breeze blowing through my hair. Going up hills like Plympton St., I love that feeling of bulldozer strength as my arms reach back on the wheels and push forward, reach back and push forward. I try and put a little flair in all my turns and grace in as much of my movement as possible. When I'm travelling at speed my hands do a little ballet on the rims of my wheels...I get in a rhythm of moving in the chair, my mind gets involved...
SOME TIME DURING the night of September 13, 1974, an unseen group of bucket-bearing revolutionaries plastered every flat surface in downtown Luanda, the capital of Angola, with signs bearing the gold star symbol of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). They did it in spite of the official 2 a.m. curfew imposed by the Portuguese Army, who were everywhere in their clattering three-man jeeps with the American-made .50-caliber machine-guns peeking out over the windshields. It's possible that the Portuguese looked the other way--after their bitter 15-year guerrilla war against...
...Charles to stand up blowing a trumpet declaring, "We must have racial equality." That's not the way to do it. The real way is to be seen flat out to help colored folk in practical ways. This is the importance of his job as head of the U.W.C., which will enable him to meet people from every country, some of them very dark, and actually get things done for them. Charles is completely and absolutely devoid of color prejudice. He just can't understand what the prejudices can be about...
Talents as broad and wide as this thrive in novels but rarely take to the more constricting form of the short story. Airships proves Hannah an exception. Though a few of the 20 pieces included here fall flat, most are artfully rounded-off vignettes jumping with humor and menace. And the stories bounce off and echo one another, giving the book an impact greater than the sum of its parts...