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There is no way to describe the greasy, sticky, feeling of self-loathing that seeps into your skin on a Trailways Bus from Boston to Daytona Beach, Florida. No adjectives sufficiently apply. This feeling is more like an instinct, akin to that of a snake struggling out of its skin...
...leghorn named Otis, have a special technique. Otis, at 109 oz. the heaviest entry, was driven past a Colonel Sanders store before the competition, they insist, and threatened with Shake 'N Bake. The best training routine seems to be to find an irascible female. The deepest instinct of roosters is to get to the ground fast and establish control over some turf...
...selected to display Michelangelo's progress from young prodigy to grand old master. He was only 24 when he completed the Pietà now in St. Peter's, only 26 when he began his famed David for Florence. The sketches done at this time demonstrate his incredible instinct for monumentality, acquired, as he said, with the milk of his wet nurse, the wife of a Tuscan stonecutter...
DIED. Jean Rhys, 84, reclusive British author who wrote critically acclaimed novels in the '30s, disappeared for 20 years, and regained celebrity with the 1967 publication of Wide Sargasso Sea; in Exeter, England. Struck by her "instinct for form" and "almost lurid passion for stating the case of the underdog," Ford Madox Ford became her literary mentor and, ironically, a model for the contemptible men in her stories who invariably prey on fragile, Rhys-like heroines. Rhys, who was writing her memoirs when she died, observed: "If you want to write the truth, you must write about yourself...
...showed in The Siege of Krishnpur (1974), British Novelist J.G. Farrell has a pathologist's instinct for the way such a deluded idyll turns into apocalypse...