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...lyrical digression, Brodsky added: "Poets always return, in the flesh or on paper. I want to believe that both are possible. Mankind has left behind the age when the strong were the right, for there are too many in the world who are weak. The only truth is kindness. Nobody has ever benefited from cruelty, wrath and hatred ... If my people do not need my body, my soul may still be useful...
...turn of the galleries. I suggest you stroll around the castle's grounds and rest your eyes. You can see some three-dimensional sculpture which is also on exhibit, take in the three-dimensional green grass and trees as well as some pinkish bodies with real flesh and bones. You should then return to the equally exciting world of black and white two-dimensional New England personalities. The show runs until September...
...Hackman) and his sultry wife Clarabelle (Angel Tompkins), a former Chicago model. Mary Ann auctions cattle and keeps the buyers happy by filling cowpens with stoned-out, naked teen-age girls, who are also up for sale. "I give this country what it wants," Mary Ann gloats. "Dope and flesh." Devlin stalks past the beef and the broads without batting an eye and confronts Mary...
Apocryphal or not, the story makes a solid point. Beyond working the swing shift down at the jute mill or flaying the catch on a tuna factory boat, there are few jobs around as demanding and punishing as that of major-league catcher. But the thought of their own flesh and blood earning a living in a metal-grille mask, sturdy chest protector and plated shin guards doesn't seem to bother Ted and Katie Bench-or even Grandma Pearl. Nearly every day the Cincinnati Reds are in town, at least one of the three treks out to Riverfront...
...Slaughterhouse-Five is his best by far. He gets rage and desperation into his science-fiction time-space games; for once he deals with an incident of historical importance which he lived through, the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1944 by Allied troops. Because the acrid smell of flesh burning in the biggest civilian massacre of World War II has not left his nostrils. Vonnegut, who was transferred to the non-industrial cultural center as a POW, admits in his introduction that he's compelled for once to do more than spin out fantasy, to fantasize in order to justify...