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Ingeniously improvising, the prisoners of La Santé rig up dummies with movable limbs to fill their places at lights-out. One man stands watch at the cell door with a periscope fashioned from a toothbrush and a shard of mirror. A piece of a metal bunk serves as a digging tool. Two stolen medicine bottles filled with sand make an hourglass to time the long, seemingly hopeless task of chipping through concrete sewer walls and treacherous rock. On the afternoon of the last day before the escape, Gaspard is suddenly called to the warden's office. Two hours...
...efforts of imagination and even larger exercises of scholarship. It is a provocative amalgam of insight and adventure. It is the act of finding an inch-long fragment of pottery on the dull grey desert, and it is the art of seeing a whole camp site in the broken shard. It is the ability to hold that relic in the hand and hear in the mind's ear an echo of some forgotten language, almost understood...
Charles Christofferson, 9, ran through a closed patio door, fell back on a 9-inch shard of glass, puncturing his large intestine...
With him was shard-voiced Comedienne Peggy Cass, taping a TV show with U.S. officers and soldiers as guests. Maintaining his most serious facial expression -his Marlon Brandenburg look-Paar stole sidewise glances across the border into curtainsville, wondering whether...
...bring Birnam Wood-root, leaf and branch-to Dunsinane. Along the brooding battlements of Yugoslavia's 12th century Lovrijenac fortress, the ghost of Hamlet's father spurs his son's revenge; deep in Russia, at Tashkent, the jealous Moor strangles the blameless Desdemona. A marble shard's throw from the Parthenon of Sophocles and Euripides, a Greek Shylock pleads, "Hath not a Jew eyes?" -while halfway round the world, black-jeaned Australian troupers tour the outback by bus, with a crown and a sword or two as their props...