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...rendering might be, "Foolish urchin, she'll get what's coming to her, like it or not."), while men couldn't get it through their heads that I wasn't beaming a silent plea for companionship. Slips of paper scrawled with undecipherable names of meaningless splotches on the globe flutter out of my wallet now and then...
Emptied of human life, Basse-Terre now resembles the post-atomic spectacle of the movie On the Beach. French Tricolors flutter unattended in the breeze. The traffic lights are still on, but jammed on red or green. Goats wander the streets and chained dogs howl in hunger. Others, having broken their bonds, forage in the grounds of the Saint-Claude Hospital. A large poster in Basse-Terre announces that the Tivoli Cinema is showing Hell Is Empty. Yet in the town of Saint-Claude, halfway up the slopes, there remains one elderly couple that refuses to leave. Says Dorome Cherize...
Model planes go catatonic in midflight. Automatic garage doors open mysteriously in the night. Truckers' chatter interrupts ministers' sermons over church public address systems. Traffic lights go berserk. TV pictures flutter. And a solid-state sewing machine suddenly shouts to a startled Indiana housewife the password of the invading force, "Breaker! Breaker!" These strange goings-on are caused not by UFOs or other extraterrestrial goblins, but by RFI (radio frequency interference), an electronic epidemic spread by the nation's 15 million Citizens Band radios (TIME...
...pastel days of summer. Her irrepressible son Kolia - danced with gymnastic virtuosity by Wayne Sleep - bounces his ball and rockets up in corkscrew jumps. With the entrance of Kolia's tutor Beliaev (Anthony Dowell), the sky outside darkens. Ominous chords sound in the orchestra and the curtains flutter - all of which seems to signify more than just a passing storm. Immediately Mama is smitten, as is Vera, her young ward, portrayed by Denise Nunn, whom Ashton plucked from the corps to complete his triangle...
...Smith's coinage for the scientific study of flags). His enthusiasm is sometimes unsettling, as if the history of the dog were being told from the point of view of its tail. Yet his sprightly lectures are packed with odd information, and the 2,800 color illustrations that flutter through them make this unquestionably the standard book on standard-bearing...