Word: rest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onto the diamond in the canary-and-green uniform he wears for his new job as vice president and batting coach of the rival Oakland Athletics. "It's not the same " said DiMag, taking a look around the recently renovated stadium. True enough, as the Jolter spent the rest of the afternoon back in the visiting dugout watching the A's hand a 6-3 drubbing to the team he once led to nine world championships...
...rest of the ritual plays itself out almost mechanically: Foxy's fetus is aborted, the Whitmans and the Hanemas get divorced, Piet and Foxy marry and move away. The remaining couples take up bridge, their place in the town having been quietly usurped by a younger crowd that "held play readings, and kept sex in its place, and experimented with LSD." Toward the end, Updike provides a fortissimo blast of obvious symbolism: the Congregational Church goes up in an apocalyptic fire that leaves untouched only the old tin weathercock, riding high over the gutted house...
...results for Dr. Richard Ashfield's coronary patients. To administer oxygen under pressure, Dr. Ashfield helped to design a device that looks like a minature submarine with a bubble top. Inside it, the patient lies on a foam-rubber bed or can lean half upright against a back rest. The lid is tightly shut by a series of strong sealing locks around...
...wine bottle. But what about the episode in the flower-filled coffin at the duke's chateau? Or the exquisitely painful encounter with a fat, sadistic Japanese who tries to pay for her services with a Geisha Club credit card? Does her uncommonly cuckolded husband really spend the rest of his life blind, mute and paralyzed after an attack by her gangster lover? Or is that merely another of Severine's interior arrangements...
...scalpers have Burt's furs now, so he trails them as they trek, scheming to get his own back, while Davis makes himself useful around the wagon (at one point he gives Shelley a wash and set that would do credit to Kenneth or Alexandre). The rest of the movie is devoted to Lancaster's strata gems-this is where the brilliantly photographed avalanche and the stampede come in-and Davis' rather pat redemption from the psychological bonds of slavery. In the end, the scalpers get their just deserts, of course, and the Indians get revenge, plus...