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On the ground, Keiichi Yamazaki heard the unusual sound of an airliner above his home in Nippara, a remote mountain village. "All of a sudden, a big air plane appeared from between mountains, just like out of no where," he recalled. "Four times it leaned to the left, and each...
Pee-wee Herman is a tiny but otherwise normally formed man who makes his living imitating an icky-sweet, or perhaps brain-damaged, prepubescent boy. The act consists mainly of mincing, prancing and an inane giggle, so that sometimes it seems he is a little mixed up and may be...
Next on the neatly stacked pile of passports was that of Patrick Scott Baker, 28, of White Salmon, Wash. Baker remarked later that one hijacker, upon first seeing the young American's passport, had smiled and said in English, "Welcome." To himself Baker thought, "Welcome to my nightmare." Like the...
The central question posed by The Good Apprentice is whether Edward can be saved from his paralyzing depression. Harry gives him a pep talk: "You are having a nervous breakdown, you are ill, it is an illness, like pneumonia or scarlet fever, you will receive help, you will be given...
Following the fortunes of one family for nearly two millenniums requires an epic of biblical dimension. In another writer's hands such a project might seem an unholy wedding of hubris and chutzpah. But Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the...