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...drag night at the New England Speedway and there's nary a feather boa in sight. The only flames in evidence are painted onto the sides of a tricked-up Rambler with its name--Impatience--emblazoned on its sides. Long lines of eager participants inch forward slowly, racing their motors eagerly. After negotiating a path between the bumpers of the cars crowding the waiting ramp, visitors cross a barren patch of dirt to get to the bleachers. Pot-bellied silhouettes with gleaming headphones and walkie-talkies loom ominously from the dark hulk of a conning tower, floodlights throw stark shadows...
Were the man and I both mistaken to assume she wanted help? Would she rather we didn't offer? I do not regularly see sight-impaired people walking without a friend or seeing-eye dog, so have never tried to help. To my eyes, he had done no more than reach out to someone who was obviously impaired. The woman implied that this instinctual kindness was odd and insulting. The incident I saw on the street scared me. I wish the woman had felt comfortable accepting the help. I congratulate her for being a lawyer and don't doubt...
These assaults tend to be far more violent than those spurred by robbery--consider the horrible sight of Matthew Shepard beaten repeatedly and left to die on a fence because he was gay, or of James Byrd Jr. dragged to his death behind a truck in Texas last summer because he was black. These are among the most heinous of crimes...
While the spectators at Weld Boathouse were a welcome sight to the Radcliffe rowers, sometimes the more avid spectators can be a bit distracting...
...find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from an enormous obdurate weight to a buoyant structure, free, afloat and adrift. All the raw material that I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory, which has become a recurrent dream." His "awe and wonder" at this sight is recapitulated, more strongly than ever before in his work, in the Torqued Ellipses...