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...loudspeaker droned out the final seconds, ". . . trois ... deux ... un .. ." The flag dropped, and 60 helmeted drivers dashed across the road to their glistening cars. With a sputter, a roar, a clash of gears, they were off, tearing down the road in one of auto racing's top events: the Le Mans 24-hour race, a telling test of driver endurance* and engine durability...
...aside to make room for it). Goya painted the Self Portrait in 1820 at the peak of his genius, as a tribute to a man he firmly believed saved his life. In 1819 Goya was 73 years old, totally deaf and seriously ill. Sickness always made the touchy Spaniard roar with anguish and self-pity. "I'm so frantic, I can scarcely stand myself," he told a friend. But a sympathetic doctor named Arrieta brought him around, and the artist decided to put his gratitude into a picture...
...movies had been just a mental transom the public was half-tired of peeking through. The next day the movies were a gap in the mind's defenses through which a roaring lion leaped and landed in the delighted moviegoer's lap. Spears and guns threatened his head, spiders walked on his face, beautiful girls reached alluringly from the screen. Then, just when a man's guard was up, came a roar of sound from the balcony, and, caught from behind and before, he was yanked into the screen and taken for a thrilling ride...
...treachery would have stalled a clumsy novelist. But Novelist Waltari is anything but clumsy. Dramatically and lavishly, he paints in the spectacular background-the campfires of the approaching Turks lining the night horizon, the arrival of their army ("a huge, living carpet seemed to cover the earth"), the roar and hiss of the foundries relentlessly churning out the Sultan's culverins and giant bombards. At first, the massive walls of Constantinople seem little affected; then telltale lines begin to streak down the masonry, widening into fundamental fractures and splits. In these splits lies a Waltari message, i.e., that when...
...Indians, death seemed to be a laughing matter. They would roar with glee when their best friends came down with beriberi or were snapped out of dugouts by the giant anacondas. Everybody, Indian or white, drank incredible quantities of cachaça, the local cane liquor, ate maggoty rice and dried meat, and sank deeper into debt...