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Along the Texas coast in East Galveston Bay, Hugh Brothers, 52, a Houston pharmacist, was casting for flounder in shallow water. "This swell came up from behind in the water. It didn't knock me down, but it was extraordinary. I looked around and saw there weren't any boats nearby, and I said, 'Where'd that come from?' Then everything was perfectly still." On the 48th floor of the 64-story Transco Tower in Houston, Martha Carlin saw "water sloshing around in the coffee urns. Office doors were closing, and the building was in motion. I looked...
...uncertainty and turbulence here remains neatly capped beneath the calm British exteriors. Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is a well-liked schoolteacher who has a number of close friends and a lovely Yorkshire cottage. There certainly are hints of loneliness beneath the cheerfulness, but it takes Morgan's suicide to knock loose her stifled memories...
...some of Townshend's solo musical efforts. When writing and performing with The Who, Pete comes across as a team-player, a rough-and-tumble rock star who would ringlead the type of debauchery described in "Long Live Rock," in which "someone takes his pants off and the rafters knock" and a "fifty-inch cymbal falls and cuts the lamps...
...football jocks all the way home from school. I was always running to hide in my bedroom, where I felt safe. I would actually call out, "Safe" to myself. When I was about 13, one local bully gave me nothing but grief all year long. He would knock me down on the grass, or hold my head in the drinking fountain, or push my face in the dirt and give me bloody noses when we had to play football in phys. ed. Once he threw a cherry bomb between my legs in the school toilet. I got up before...
...answer then, but the Muse seems to have instilled something of a mental picture in my mind. There Lenny, with bunches of school children marching beside him like they did three weeks ago at the opening of the Ave. Bridge. As the mayor and troupe of little followers knock on the St. Peter's pearly gates. Lenny leaned over and, politician-style out of the corner of his mouth, asks the venerable doorkeeper a rather pointed question "So whaddya think...