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...most telling of these incidents is Malle's view of a group of mechanics trying to fix a flat tire. Ten of them jump on and off the tire trying to fit it to a rim that is too large. They don't understand that technology will not allow certain possibilities. Similarly, at the site of a derailed train Malle highlights another strange mixture of men and machines; dozens of workmen pile rocks under the wheels, forming a ramp for the train to move onto the track...
Someone hands Margaret Court a big cup of Budweiser and Danny bolts for it. She gives him the cup and he takes a good Aussie swig with both hands firmly around the rim and as he plops it down on her severe white tennis dress. He has also managed to attain a beard of froth...
...inbounds play, Jenkins took a pass, and unable to see any open men, took his last-second shot from 20 ft. out. The buzzer sounded as it bounced off the rim onto the floor...
Unfortunately, the same techniques don't always work for his biographers. Abrahams and Stansky load their book with detail, but it is generally off the mark rather than tangential. It is a valuable book for what it tells of life on the outer rim of privilege, not for what it tells of Orwell. But since no one is likely to investigate the life of the lower-upper-middle class for its own sake, and since the party administrators of the world are more important and disgruntled than is regularly recognized, the book is worthwhile even if it sheds little light...
...again in 1931, the city was virtually leveled by quakes, with heavy loss of life (some 1,450 died in the 1931 catastrophe). Lying along the "circle of fire," a ring of volcanoes and seismic fault lines that encircles the Pacific from the Aleutians down through the western rim of the Americas to New Zealand and up through Japan, Central America is frequently shaken by geologic turbulence...