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...This was 7:00 a.m., the precise time the bulls are run through the streets, and everyone was gathered around the bullring in anticipation. I swallowed my embarrassment at my rather unflattering outfit and began asking policemen outside the arena if they understood English or French. They would just stare at me, point at my legs, and laugh, "Pantalones! Pantalones!" I was on the verge of breaking down and I soon began to make obscene gestures at the people laughing at me. Finally an usher at one of the entrances to the bullring took pity on me and went across...
...self is to many a novelist what his own physiognomy is to a painter of portraits: the closest subject at hand demanding scrutiny, a problem for his art to solve--given the enormous obstacles to truthfulness, the artistic problem." The novelist, of course, has to do more than stare at his reflected countenance. He has to distance himself from it to see it better and convert his topic from private exorcism to public explanation, from case to disease. And that is exactly what Roth fails to do here: the account is not just that of his own life, even...
...They know that a gallery can't survive by just selling a few expensive paintings each month. So they buy prints and water colors from local artists which they think will appeal to students. These are cheap, often cute, occasionally psychedelic--reminescent of the art you stare at glassy-eyed in a dentist's office. Salter says they sell very well...
...think the stroke Bob [Haldeman] has with him is in the confrontation to say, "Jeb, you know that just plain isn't so," and just stare him down on some of this stuff and it is a golden opportunity to do this ... I am sure he will rationalize himself into a fable that hangs together. But if he knows that you are going to righteously and indignantly deny...
...third 500 is slow but the Crimson leads the field and has beaten Penn psychologically. Northeastern pulls even with 200 meters to go and launches its sprint; they shoot by the exhausted Crimson, winning easily and extending Harvard's defeated streak to two. Juniors Bill Mahoney and Gene Lebarre stare uncomprehendingly at the Huskie boat which no one had even talked about during the season. Neither has ever won in the Sprints...