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Kunen's reporting is no mere recital of grievances. His eye catches the wry side of things-including himself. "April 25. I get up and shave with [Columbia President] Grayson Kirk's razor, use his toothpaste, splash on his aftershave, grooving on it all. I need something morale-building like this, because my revolutionary fervor takes about half an hour longer than the rest of me to wake up." Arrested and riding to jail surrounded by deadly earnest radicals, Kunen busies himself trying "to work a cigarette butt through the window grate so that I can litter from...
...also spent one noontime driving Mrs. Kennedy to school to pick up her son Christopher, and another at Georgetown University Hospital, where Courtney Kennedy was having stitches removed from a wound suffered while skiing. A Washington Post columnist reported that Gorey was even spotted, notebook in hand, recording every splash one morning while Ethel bathed her eleventh child, Rory. Not so, says Gorey. He never carried a notebook into the bathroom...
Nevertheless, Nigerian mortar bombs and small-arms fire continued to splash about aimlessly, killing here, falling sterile there. A soldier crawling through the bush was hit between the eyes. He stumbled to his feet when he must have been already dead and jerked about in a reflexive dance of death. Then he collapsed, the puppet strings finally cut. A group of wounded who should rightly have been in catatonic shock stumbled down a path under a squall of incoming fire, their intestines peeking pinkly between their fingers. The colonel walked through it all with quiet confidence. He questioned a second...
...midweek, NASA officials decided that recovery would be too dangerous in the tossing waters off Bermuda and ordered the astronauts to stay in orbit for one additional revolution. Thus, as the earth revolved beneath Apollo's orbit, the next pass over the Atlantic enabled the astronauts to splash down far from the storm, in the calm waters off Grand Turk Island, in the Bahamas. There, the only whitecaps were those churned up by recovery helicopters...
...Wearisome repetition," they say, or at best, "an interesting restatement." The reviewers are correct, she realizes, and it seems to her that her career is over. A vacation with her husband is painful. She refuses to swim. "An old man's body, I said to myself, watching him splash about in the water, is after all less ghastly than an old woman...