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Take a dentist's drill, a meat grinder . . . Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. Make locomotives crash into one another . . . Explode steam boilers to make railroad mist. Take petticoats and the like, shoes and false hair, also ice skates...
...recognizes the ordinary without ridiculing it, but his ordinary is loony enough for any South American magic realist. The seat of Mist County, in an unmapped region northwest of Minneapolis, delights in eccentric folklore. The first white settlers are led by a Boston Unitarian called to convert the Indians with interpretive dance. She only captivates a beskinned and unbathed French trapper, with whom she has seven children. The failing local college - is finally abandoned after a bear kills a student, and the town's first Norwegian is a Union Army deserter whose descendants, the Sons of Knute, hold a yearly...
...King's formula were as easy to imitate as it is to describe, all writers might be millionaires. Yet he is the prevailing master in the horror-lit racket because his work hardly ever seems calculated or artificial. The Mist begins: "This is what happened. On the night that the worst heat wave in northern New England history finally broke--the night of July 19--the entire western Maine region was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms I have ever seen." The novella-length story is an exercise in escalating gruesomeness, and the urgency and awkwardness of the narrative lend...
...course London is not always so vaunted. Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" is a famous portrait of the rancid gutters, but James Eyre Week's vision of the grey fog of people, "Lost and bewildered in the thickening mist" presents the wen at its gloomist. Also intriguing are Hannah More and William Parsons' words on the tumuluous bred riots that swept the nation towards the end of the century. And Mary Alcock's "The Chimney Sweeper's Complaint" whisks in the industrial fervor...
...transport plane looked almost ghostly as it broke through the early morning mist and touched down at Andrews Air Force Base last week. For the fifth time since April 1983, a military aircraft was bringing home the bodies of innocent Americans slain by Middle East terrorists. When the flag-draped coffins of Charles Hegna, 50, and William Stanford, 52, were carried by an honor guard into the cavernous hangar for a memorial service, there were tears of sorrow and frustration in the eyes of many in the crowd of 150 Government officials and family members. Vice President George Bush delivered...