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...inexpressive as round stoppers. What if some god or giant should bend down and take several of the stoppers out? I thought. Inside there would be black churning depths like bile, or bitter medicine." But it is his wary view of the adult world that lingers. Even a Punch and Judy show has an ominous significance: when Punch "began hitting the baby with hard wooden thuds I felt its skull crack and knew that none of us were safe while grown-ups thought that this sort of thing was funny...
...almost autistic as an infant. Bell, who has managed heroically to complete high school and secure a good job with the city, blames herself for his problems. "I hated the fact that I was pregnant," she recalls. "I was resentful of my unborn child. I used to punch myself in the stomach. Poor Eddie," she muses, "the first year I wouldn't play with him. He didn't talk until he was nearly two; he would just grunt. I would say, I traumatized...
...Bart Simpson would say, that joke is funny for so many reasons. It's also all in the telling, so it plays on comics' need to earn approval through lurid pirouettes of a lunatic imagination. And having spent all its shock value in the setup, it offers a punch line of cheerful poignancy. This family will do anything to be in show...
...hard-boiled novels (Get Shorty, Rum Punch and his latest, The Hot Kid) are beloved by readers and Hollywood alike: 17 of his 40 books have been made into movies. Even at 79, Elmore Leonard is back at his desk every morning, scrawling in longhand--no computers, please--his daily quota of pitch-perfect dialogue. He spoke to TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt from his home outside Detroit...
...combination of Stanford and Harvard would provide a West-Coast East-Coast one-two punch that would start to generate real pressure on other universities to follow suit,” Prendergast told the Stanford Daily...