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...days it subsided. Except for an Algerian plane that bombed and strafed a Moroccan town some 200 miles away, the war consisted mostly of sniping and artillery salvos, exchanged over a no man's land of rocky ridges, steep ravines and huge boulders jutting out of the desert sand...
Selling life insurance in India is something like selling sand in the Sahara. Though most Indians may not believe that life insurance causes death, many of them do feel that it defies and tempts the gods. For many Indians, furthermore, land seems the only smart investment, and attempts to sell them insurance are repulsed as schemes to snatch their money. There is, of course, little enough of that; the per capita income in India is only $69 a year, and people are so busy trying to keep alive that they have little time to worry about death...
...other destiny. But when does writing have an end? What is the warning sign? A trembling of the hand? I used to think that with the completed book you raise the joyful cry 'Finished!' You clap your hands, only to find pouring from them grains of sand you believed to be precious. That is the moment when, in the figures inscribed by those grains of sand, you may read the words 'To be continued...
...stage drama. In the fourth act, the old crippled woman Mainas (expertly voiced by Joan Tolentino) draws the scene of Iphigeneia's death in a panoply of colors: the yellow beard of the priest, the flowers blue and red and yellow; "I saw the white tents on the ocher sand, / And the staring eye-green sea, and all those men / In their silver breast-plates, and the stones / They laid her on, and the sleeves of her dress--" the saffron dress with the golden border. Then the black and white men of court return and Aegon thinks of "Lesbos when...
...hoarse as Palmer, gulping cortisone pills to ease the pain of a bursitis attack in his right shoulder, one-putted six of the first nine holes. For Nicklaus there was open hostility: he ignored it for 17 holes, and then his approach to the 18th green bounced through a sand trap. "Hold! Hold!" shouted the crowd; a loud groan went up when the ball flipped safely past...