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...life resumes. On Wendt Terrace, the only thing burning now is a lamp in the living room of Gary Pattengill's home. The house is safe; the master is home. The garden hose, vessel of hope and defender of one slice of the American Dream, lies quietly on the roof...
...split- level on Wendt Terrace is still untouched. A bowl of apples and bananas sits spotless on a kitchen counter. Unfortunately, like many homes in a town proud of its rustic flavor, Pattengill's is made of wood. Within minutes, his tennis shoes can be heard trudging the roof, accompanied by a slight hiss of water. Then he comes down again. "There's hardly any water pressure," he laments, a fact that has been hampering official fire fighters all day. Outside on his patio, an ember alights on a flower and incinerates it. The phone rings. It's his wife...
About 15 minutes passed before the rescue workers could break the roof of the car to get him out, according to Captain Michael Morrissey of the Cambridge Fire Department...
Morrissey said rescue workers "flapped" the roof off the car, cutting four of the six posts and bendingthe roof back...
There are two startling passages in another new off-Broadway play, the keenly observed if scattershot Sophistry, set on a college campus. One features Austin Pendleton, whose credits stretch back to Fiddler on the Roof and Oh, Dad, Poor Dad. The other belongs to Anthony Rapp, 21. When they meet as teacher and student in a sexual encounter that degenerates into a harassment charge, Rapp's blend of rocketing energy and terror turned bravado rules the stage...