Word: jamb
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...Clock last fall. But I sometimes dream of a power, like my namesake's in Rohmer's Chloe in the Afternoon, that is consummate attraction. And I wait to answer my door on some dreary Thursday afternoon, and find a youthful Lauren Bacall, propped by a door jamb, asking for a match...
...Excuse me, sir," I said to a professorish-looking man leaning on a door jamb...
...front door. To the Chicago Tribune, which he praised for its "accurate, fair and balanced account," Hanrahan gave "exclusive" photographs that the newspaper said showed a hole in the front door made by a 12-gauge shotgun slug, a bullet-riddled bathroom door and two holes in the backdoor jamb made by shots fired by Panthers inside the building...
...Jamb, long-lost deacon and husband of the minister's daughter...
...Yamb-Jamb is strangely drawn into the curious life of this Utopian haven where time seems to have stopped just before the Industrial Revolution, and where in effect it stands still for two weeks every year (the no man's time of the title). The inhabitants of this intellectualized Glocca Morra all work at handicrafts, and their fundamentalismcum-science theology seems to. be a mixture of Billy Graham and Albert Einstein. Bruno himself turns out to be a mystical exponent of this theology. He claims to remember all of human history as if it were his biography...