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They "seemed to inhabit another world," writes Ben Fong-Torres of the old Top 40 disc jockeys in "The Hits Just Keep on Coming," his history of rock radio. "They gave away cash and prizes on the air, and they presided over sock hops and 'Bandstand'-style shows on local television. They were like Dick Clark. Only they lived in your town...
...dragon apparently hadn't had his phil of Bronstein, and as the plucky editor tried to exit via the feeding door, the dragon lunged at him again, clawing his back and thighs, as about 10 children and four adults watched from outside the cage. Stone used Bronstein's sock as a tourniquet and tried to call for help. She called her sister, a former nurse, who told Stone to get to a hospital and to see an infectious-disease specialist...
...Phil had scratches on his thigh from it clawing him on the way out. I pulled him out and laid him down on the floor right in front of the door. I turned his sock inside out and made a tourniquet and put his foot on my shoulder because he was bleeding so severely. I'm very busy doing what I'm doing and not realizing that we are less than two feet from the cage door where the zookeeper's trying to get out and the animal's still trying to attack Phil. It's shoving its claws...
...everything at Cedars, they got him to UCLA Medical Center. And I would say he was in the O.R. in less than seven minutes. They had the guy looking at his EKG. They had a guy working on sedating him. I cut his trousers off. He still had his sock as his tourniquet. He went right into surgery. They did the surgery, they didn't have to do the skin graft, they reconstructed the joint around his toe, they reattached the tendon. When we were at the hospital, the head of the infectious disease department was staying overnight...
...comes as much from the actions of the story as from the portrayal of those actions. A typical moment goes like this: in the midst of Nathan explaining his mother's deterioration Richard bends over, saying, "Nathan..." Grabbing a blob in the grass, he continues saying, "...you dropped a sock." Nathan, with laundry basket in hand, takes the sock and says, "Thanks." This seemingly pointless, interfering sequence could be mistaken for a waste of three panels. But really it's a gift; an act of artistic generosity...