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...chamber fell deathly silent. Israel would not consider itself on the defensive in the debate, Herzog began. "I am in no way sitting in the dock as the accused party," he said. Instead, he continued, "I stand here as an accuser [of] this rotten, corrupt, brutal, cynical, bloodthirsty monster of international terrorism and all those who support it in one way or the other, whether by commission or omission." The nations that should be on trial, he said, were those "who have collaborated with the terrorists and who have aided and abetted them." Israel was "proud" of the Entebbe raid...
...dialogue for life's blood. Brooks' favorite weapon was the non sequitur (mankind's greatest invention, according to the 2,000 Year Old Man, was Saran Wrap). He also excelled at illogical logic and brassy, daffy asides, like the hermit in Young Frankenstein sulking because the monster had shambled off without sampling his espresso...
...when he failed to get the necessary permits. "A lot of people think it's frippery, just a fire in the sky," says Plimpton, "but I love the damn things." One thing he will not try during his Bicentennial bang is another "fat man," a two-ton monster mortar that Plimpton hoped would put him in the Guinness Book of World Records. When tested this winter, it blew up on the ground. "A very discouraging business," recalls Plimpton. "And it created an enormous man-made lake...
...told the tribunal that he had once worked as a bodyguard for a bookmaker ("who probably pays taxes to the Mafia") before his service with the F.N.L.A. in Angola. Grillo willingly propagandized against his adopted country. "The part of American society I come from," he said, "was a monster, full of power seekers and status seekers, with lots of drugs and so on. In New York they have restaurants for dogs while people die in the streets of cold and hunger...
...each subway freak chooses his own spot in the MBTA--and there are plenty to choose from. When I'm depressed, my favorite is the Central Square stop of the Red Line, when the last train of the night is due, and the station is deserted. A big iron monster takes the place of the turnstile after the man at the change booth has gone home for the night. On particularly bad nights, the iron monster will swallow your quarter and not allow you on the platform. But there is nothing in Boston that quite compares with the view from...