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Parking on a likely corner, the truck blares forth recorded music on its system--Irish jigs or Italian tarentella, depending on the neighborhood. As soon as a crowd forms, Moore begins to orate for the Republican ticket. First he softens the crowd up with references to their homeland. (You've...
Guts and Skill
One of the matadors today was a small boy of fourteen years, who survived a couple of run-ins with the bull and went on to defeat him. This brave lad possessed all the gestures of the old pros and he put on the best show of them all. No...
The Man Who Died. Boastful, untruthful, utterly incompetent, Apthorpe dies of fever in a West African hospital. But it is only when he is on his deathbed, "staring at the sun-blinds with his hands empty on the counterpane," that the reader grasps the true nature of Waugh's...
The second part talks about the climbing of the mountain itself, and it is not funny at all. Twice the two men who finally surmounted the Butcher fell off, saved only by some extraordinary skill and guts. Both were severely frostbitten, one staking his life against the tentative Peruvian transportation...