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...grisly discovery proved to be only the beginning. With the trusties digging through the night-in exchange for time off from their sentences-police detectives donned rubber gloves and began sifting through the dirt for bits of bone, hair, flesh and clothing. Nine more bodies were recovered from the death shed...
...other men survived on three rafts; an eighth man died of his injuries. Though he was the only civilian in the group, Rickenbacker took charge; he carefully divided four oranges and made them last six days. One day a seagull landed on his head. He captured it, apportioned its flesh and used its entrails as bait for fish. He cursed one man who prayed for death, and dragged back another who tried to drown himself to make more room for the others. His comrades later credited him with taunting them into staying alive...
Even more disturbing is that some quick-buckers have started on the satire routine. Here's a juicy line from Ludwig von Wolfgang Vulture: "Now one of the flock would dip down in a 61/2-point inverted roll and tear off a chunk of the festering flesh of the decaying cow or sow, the flesh already gone black, squirming with blind maggots." And here's the twist: Ludwig gets hooked on speed reading and expects a Fulbright or Rhodes; instead he gets banished. Or try this for satire: "He knew that perfect speed is never having to say you're slow...
...Jealous Ear, his first novel, is about a boy's attempt to piece together his past and future from glimpses through door cracks, snatches of overheard conversations, strange odors and intimate brushes with the flesh...
...riot. Nice one, too. About 7,000 stone broke hippies came rolling off the hill overlooking the festival site and rolled clean through the one chain link fence separating themselves from wall to wall music. At which point they clashed with the paying customers and much mangling of flesh ensued. So now they hold the festival in places like the Sheep Meadow and Fenway Park. All that considered, this year's local festival shapes up well indeed. The key evening is Saturday, because Stevie Wonder and B.B. King more or less top a bill of giants: Mingus, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard...