Word: squints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced press conference with Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. Leary and three traveling companions next surfaced in Beirut. They were supposed to "study the methods of the Palestinian revolutionaries," but neither Jordan nor Syria would have them. Cairo let them stay overnight at an airport hotel and take a quick squint at the Pyramids before packing them back to Algiers. Where next? He wanted to talk to the North Koreans, Leary told reporters. Later he announced that he would enter the U.S. in disguise to attend a Panther rally in New Haven ("There will be many surprises that day"). Later still...
When the friends and family make it to the funeral home they find the De Molays already arrived and the undertaker in full mourning clothes at the door, wearing his grief like a tight-fitting hat, his face pale, his eyes drawn tight almost in a squint. When people see the body they remark that the undertaker has done a good job, for you can hardly tell that Anthony had the side of his face shot away when a land mine exploded, and that the doctors in the Army surgical unit who tried to operate on the poor wounded mass...
...York, his working premise seems to be that everything in the world of supertown is so oversize and so shrill that no one notices any of it. Mass anesthesia is the result. His remedy: to shrink life to the miniature so that the reader is obliged to bend and squint to see the madness, perfectly proportioned to a bizarre cameo...