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That evening, after the sun had set and the center of the city shone in the expansive electric light that almost explodes in the rarefied night air, I left my hotel and the flickering outdoor food kiosks of the Indian Quarter to eat dinner with some Westerners I'd met in a cafe earlier that day. The main streets of the downtown area were quiet now, in contrast to the bustle of the tourists, businessmen, cocaine-pushers (La Paz is the cocaine capital of the world). I walked past the neon signs of the restaurants and clubs that dotted...
...overhead. The fog would not lift tonight. I heard a noise in the brush by the stone staircase and there was Francois. His pants were wet to the knees and there was a crusty line of sand up the front of his jacket. He looked frightened, but his eyes shone. He pulled from his pocket a handful of round, smooth stones from the beach. "Bombs!" he said. "I went to the beach and got bombs Le Bon Dieu will hurl these at them and kill them, and then put them in a volcano...
Freshman star Jack Branden has shone for Cornell in the 200-yard backstroke and the 200 individual medley. Branden's time of 2:00.9 against Navy earlier in the season broke the old Cornell record by almost two full seconds...
...murals the Communists painted shone with bright colors and sharp outlines, something like posters by Leger or Picasso. According to Kunzle, more than anything else, images of reconciliation, birth, and growth filled the murals, and images of children, because Popular Unity always stressed the past suffering and limitless future potentiality of children, born perhaps in rotting shantytowns but growing maturity with a government determined to abolish shantytowns for the future. The brigades painted murals on walls, on public buildings, outside municipal swimming pools, in a happy and sometimes even erotic style that owed something not just to Leger and Picasso...
...florid, folksy, courtly Southern gentleman-thought to be a vanishing breed-was suddenly resuscitated and became relevant. As one witness after another came before the committee to tell of his shabby doings, Ervin's devotion to law and liberty shone by contrast. His eyebrows dancing up and down like puppets on a string, he made his points sharply and supported them with apt quotations from Shakespeare and the Bible. He sympathized while he remonstrated with the errant public servants, and redemption was always possible. Ervin intended the investigation to educate the American people, and he succeeded. In turn...