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...poetry, martial arts and music. Friends drop in and out, as does Gerry, but Sayer's resilience is the bedrock of the story. There's a charm and grace (and goofiness) in the adolescent Sayer, whose telling evokes the quiet dignity Henry Lawson found a century ago in the "sallow faces" and "weary feet" of the underclass...
While the Democratic candidates have cavorted among the people--and in the process shed the sallow, boring defensiveness of the past three years--the President hasn't been having a very happy winter. His State of the Union speech was eminently forgettable, except, perhaps, for his declaration of war on steroid use by athletes. Iraq remains a mess. Ten more Americans were killed there last week, and eight more in Afghanistan, which makes the President's Merrimack assertion of success in the war on terrorism--"Now we're marching to peace ... now we're secure in the peace"--seem insensitive...
...repeatedly raped her and her colleagues. "They said we did not have honor. I looked at them and I said, 'Ahh, it's no use.'" The soldiers came again. And again. Florence kept working. She had no choice. Three years ago she fell ill. A rash spread across her sallow chest and her hair began to fall out. "A doctor came to our area and said come to the hospital for a checkup," she says. "So they did tests, and that was how I was told I was HIV positive." At first she thought AIDS was like...
...came from Northwest Philly, not South or West. And I've never been Italian. But I do remember seeing some of the kids from "Bandstand" occasionally on the elevated train near the show's West 46 Street studio. In real life they looked small, sallow, extravagantly Vaselined, with poofter pompadours and funny shoes. The rest of the country had Elvis lookalikes; we had Frankie Avalon clones. Of course, the kids had to be dolled up - they were in show business! And they acquired something like the young luster of Annette Funicello on another ABC afternoon attraction, "The Mickey Mouse Club...
...even the pipa, however, could save seven-month-old Antonio Garcia, who choked to death in Anapra this spring. The slum's sallow air had filled his tiny lungs with dust and disease. Dr. Gustavo Martinez, director of a private Juarez hospital, watched helplessly as the infant writhed in pain before he finally suffocated. "You don't ever forget the face of a seven-month-old who doesn't want to live anymore," he says. When Martinez went afterward to see the family, he found their one-room shanty, built of pallets and cardboard, open on all sides...