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...scene was repeated from Texas to Ohio and Maryland as the freak storms, caused by a southerly dip in the jet stream that slammed cold Canadian air against warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, zigzagged across the Southeast. High winds tossed a school bus full of children off a road in North Carolina (five kids and the driver were admitted to a hospital) and tore the steeple from a Georgia church as the congregation sang Amazing Grace. Still, in Florence, Mississippi, fate smiled on a six-day-old girl, ripped from her father's arms when a twister...
...Sarah Higgins spent the first 75 years of her life coming to grips with the idea that she might live forever -- or what seemed like it. Despite some close calls, she was as healthy as the average 50-year-old woman in the late 20th century had been. A freak infection had destroyed her first heart, but fortunately she had a spare. It was cloned from a sample of her own tissue that had been stored away while she was still a teenager...
...This is a freak thing," he said. "It could happen at any given time...
...this anthology of Mitchell's best work is any indication, the publishers are on the cusp of a renaissance. Crowded with the author's favorite subjects ("visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls, the-end-is-near street preachers, old Gypsy kings and old Gypsy queens, and out-and-out freak-show freaks"), Up in the Old Hotel is the shortest 718-page volume of the year...
...David Lynch circus is back. While Mark Frost is happy to leave the town he helped make a prime-time legend, his ex-partner is still living there, with all the warped ingenuousness of a rural kid who tells his friends, "Let's put the freak show on right here! Again!" TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME, Lynch's way-too-late prequel to the 1990 TV series, relates the last days of teen queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). After an agonizing first half-hour designed to empty the theater, Lynch unleashes his patented perfervid style, puts the familiar dwarfs...