Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrapped in Old Glory. What makes the scene -- pure performance art -- so arresting, though, is not its content but its location. In the X-ray light of the setting sun, each catwalk and scaffold of a makeshift stage stands silhouetted against the empty spaces of the plains. At this instant, the vision of another artist leaps to mind: the spaceship sequence from Einstein on the Beach...
Until the drug was developed, sufferers were forced to rely on largely ineffective medications or disfiguring surgery. But Oculinum brought them almost instant relief. Injected into the tissue around the eye, it paralyzed the spasming muscles for as long as three or four months, thereby preventing them from squeezing the lids shut. Mattie Lou Koster, 74, of Beaumont, Texas, had her last injection of Oculinum in May. "It was a miracle," she exclaims, "the thrill of being able to open my eyes. Now I see through slits, when I can see." Other patients who used Oculinum, including some suffering from...
...year is just an instant in baseball, but an inning is a long time ago, and before anyone could finish gulping or sighing, the World Series was on. If the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox take most of this week to realize where they are, it is because playoffs can hang in the air as improbably as homers off the bat of Lenny Dykstra or the glove of Dave Henderson, and neither the National nor American leagues had ever seen such playoffs...
...gone through all the official channels to no avail. So I told Walter about my problem, and an instant later he pulls out a wad of yard passes for the event," Koocher remembers. " `You don't go through the bureaucracy,' he says, `You get them staight from the printer...
...book displays all the author's patented tics and tropes. The Beautiful Losers: a black, a homosexual, and -- among others persecuted in adolescence and now called home to disinter a buried memory -- a stutterer and an abused girl. The Validated Nightmare: "At the last instant, as the ax slowed to its apogee and balanced there, Richie understood that this wasn't a dream at all . . ." The Disgusting Colloquialism: "She drew in a great, hitching breath and hocked a remarkably large looey onto the top of his head." The Brand-Name Maneuver: "Here sits a man with Bass Weejuns...