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...Marion to be a Marine. His father was in the corps, and his uniform still fits. The time is 1943, and a young man's honor is at stake. Waiting for an eastbound bus. Marion buys a drink for a full-fledged Marine Raider, who wears a skull-and-cross-bones patch on his sleeve and stares fixedly ahead, as if trying to make out messages on the liquor bottles. Marion listens to the Marine's reminiscences of battle, envies all his medals. The Raider is of a rather different frame of mind. He gets Marion drunk, clobbers...
...black neighborhoods stoned more cars. A 17-year-old mentally retarded girl was struck in the face when a gang of blacks surrounded a car driven by her father and one of them hurled a piece of pavement through the windshield. Admitted to Boston City with a fractured skull, by week's end she was listed in fair condition. Frank Meehan, a white man, was dragged from his car and stabbed by four black youths in the Roslindale section. In an apparently unrelated episode, an explosion ripped through a wall of the municipal courthouse, injuring 19 people, nine seriously...
First comes Sally. "Oh, Mama, it's good to be home," she tells her elderly mother. With her withering limbs and head covered by fine gray stubble, Sally, 46, appears ancient. When she turns to peer out the window, her skull bears the surgical dent that is brain cancer's trophy. "It's just like when you look at a little baby," she says. "Someday that baby will be an old man or an old woman if they live long enough. And so, I have no fear of death." Sally may not, but hers is a Yankee...
Marilyn the Wild is flawed by its own rampaging vitality. A Charyn character cannot simply put on a coat: Es ther Rose's "fist burrowed into her sleeve like the skull of a groundhog...
...time wrestling there are anomalies and curiosities of medicine unknown to the Guinness Book of World Records. Bobo Brazil, for example, the ever-popular champ, has a skull that is reputed to be four inches thick. He inflicts a torture known as the 'Coco-butt' upon his terrorized victims. By smashing his oversized cranium against theirs, he is able to shatter loose bits of bone which drift into their brain over succeeding months. The lucky ones become basket cases. Others bleed from their ears and lose all control over their bowel function...