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...turf. Miss Nigeria has an Afro wig, Miss England a ball gown and crown. Miss Japan is mincing in a kimono. Miss America has a jerry-rigged hula skirt that threatens to fall down. A thick papier-machE chain is snipped with giant scissors, and its two halves waft skyward, borne by rafts of balloons. It seems an unnecessarily sadistic bit of symbolism in a prison, but no one is paying much attention. With the Klong Prem World Cup officially under way, the teams take the field, looking as uneven as the turf. Most of the Nigerians are a full...
...small boy is walking with his grandmother on a deserted stretch of beach. Suddenly an enormous wave rises up, crashes onto the beach and carries the little boy away. The grandmother is stricken with grief and then with anger. She turns her face skyward and reproaches, “God, how could you allow such a thing to happen? My grandson had his whole life before him. If you bring him back I promise that I’ll never ask for anything else as long as I live.” The sky darkens and another huge wave crashes...
...without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem, whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain illusive,” wrote E. B. White in Here is New York. “Manhattan has been compelled to expand skyward because of the absence of any other direction in which to grow. This, more than any other thing, is responsible for its physical majesty...
...bullpen has no pitcher's mound. It's a real cattle pen occupied by three real bulls--three real surly bulls. Sufficiently limber, Naldur ignores the snorting animals--and his age--as he hops on the back of a 1,300-lb. bronco that will try to launch him skyward while galloping at up to 40 m.p.h. It's a rough ride that ends with a kick to the head, a face full of blood and some tense moments as Naldur struggles back to his feet and to consciousness. Bronco 1, Naldur 0. "When I was 18, I could...
...YORK—In Manhattan’s financial district, the mood was visibly nervous Monday, as many workers returning for the first time repeatedly cast looks skyward at the gulf of light where the World Trade Center used...