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Flop Over. But 20 miles down from Albany the river roughened and Augie's gamble began to pay off. By Poughkeepsie, the halfway mark, his boat was bouncing clean out of the water every 20 seconds or so ("I could hear that screw screaming"). His forward gas tank broke loose, and he had to slow down for 20 minutes while he hand-pumped gas into his after tank. But he kept going while the others were having troubles too ("I saw one boat spin right up on its tail and flop over...
...sequence of events is tenuously affixed, is an imbecile's effort to follow the advice of his father: "'Get rich, boy,' he would say, filling his corncob pipe with cigarette buts I had had collected for him during the day. 'Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw...
...developed enough for him to be fitted with his first pair of legs. Made of plastic, the legs are only thigh-length (usual for learners), and held to Freddie's body by a corset-like harness. The toes of the stumps point backward for better balance. A simple screw adjustment made by the nurse or mother makes the legs flex so that Freddie can sit down...
...McEvitt was not satisfied with any of these methods, but it took him a long time to screw up enough courage to use sandpaper. He first tried local anesthesia, but found it was not enough. Now he puts his patients into the hospital, gives them a general anesthetic, and sandpapers the whole face (using No. 1½ or No. 2 grades of sandpaper) in a single operation. Bleeding is controlled by pressure. Then petrolatum gauze and a pressure dressing are applied. After ten days the wrappings come off, and the patient's face is usually healed. Local touching...
...Innocents. A moderately frightening, admirably atmospheric adaptation of Henry James's celebrated ghost story, The Turn of the Screw (TIME...