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...months after rescuers hacksawed him, battered and bloody, out of the unrecognizable wreckage of a pale green Lotus at England's Goodwood International Grand Prix, Auto Racer Stirling Moss, 32, was talking about getting back behind the wheel. In pajamas and striped dressing gown, the durable daredevil sat in a wheelchair at London's Atkinson Morley's Hospital, joshing the "head-shrinkers" who were putting him through tests, flirting with nurses and telling friends, "I'll be teaching you the twist soon." Doctors no longer feared paralysis from brain damage, but they said it would...
...wall. Their poverty is merely the standard lower academic kind, but the Herzes are more than usually miserable. He is Jewish, she was born Catholic, and their bitter parents cut off both love and loans when they married. Worse, Libby is a sickly girl, the sort whose pale beauty is best set off by fever, and whose malfunctioning organs-kidneys, in her case-take on a presence of their own in the house, like an old aunt's false teeth or an off-duty cop's revolver...
Gone is the traditional 'Cliffie with "her stringy dark hair, long, pale, intense face and black wool stockings; her green bookbag, stapled at birth to her right shoulder." In her place has emerged, "with new plumage and pinfeathers, a species that would no doubt have startled her ancestors...
...looks of a spirited waif. She plays one in Honey-a little urchin abandoned by her mother and by a Negro sailor who has left her pregnant, later befriended by a pale, homosexual boy who prepares her for motherhood. She is freckled and mousy, with wide-spreading lips and eyes the size of deep-summer plums. But she is an actress, not a slum kitten picked up for verisimilitude...
...Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov. A monstrous, witty work of often bewildering verbal agility, in which a respected old poet is annotated to death by a lunatic scholar-or is he an exiled king...