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...spend my days creating an illusion of control. My clothes are piled neatly in drawers, my papers filed in alphabetleal order. I write two letters a day in the gap between classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, instead of staying around the Square and eating lunch. I walk the mile house to see my mail. As each letter of rejection comes. In, I attach for to the master copy of my letter of inquiry and move to the appropriate, file. The faceless letters pile up and my own fact floats in the air before me, record my body temperature daily...
...bewitched with its eerie atomic sounds, first through Composer Walter Carlos' bestselling record Switched-On Bach, later by Rock Keyboard Artists Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Rick Wakeman of Yes. The synthesizer began to challenge the electric guitar for the top of the instrumental rock pile...
...away from the infamous bar in George Higgins' The Friends of Eddie Coyle, could be Philip Marlowe's in Los Angeles: "Second floor front, one room with a desk file cabinet and two chairs in case Mrs. Onassis came in with her husband, mail slot and pile of mail." L.A. has long been the culture capital of suspense fiction. Boston may now be moving up. In Parker's God Save the Child, kidnapers instruct that the ransom be put in a green book bag - a touch as evocative of Boston as the swan boats in the Public...
...Jones is not alone. "Yes, if Eddie was still on the council," another business man recalls, "that complex wouldn't be just a pile of weeds--it would be out making money for the city right...
...Israelis. The need to abandon wounded comrades on the field during the heavy and continuous fighting, a denial of the Israeli army's code of behavior, was shattering. One Israeli machine gunner shot down so many Arabs that he fled in panic, obsessed by the idea of a pile of corpses blotting out the sun. Another soldier, unhurt when his halftrack was blown up, broke down because the machine had been his home and sole reference point in five days of fighting...