Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They could tell you exactly what Ted Williams batted in 1946 but didn't know the figure for last month's inflation...
Even in two trips a newcomer picks up a good deal of lore. Pigeon-toed prints usually mean a man is running. You can tell which predator killed an animal by the way the carcass was entered: dogs and wolves eat through the back, lions enter through the rib cage. An old man's tracks tend to be more regular than a young man's. Because shoes conform to a man's feet, you can later identify in court the feet that made a track, even if the shoes used during the crime were thrown away...
...Moran clearly relishes his job. "I'm miserably happy with it," he says. As he drives around his district, he loves to tell of applying the law to life in the panhandle. He recalls the case of a thief who stole some unbranded cattle, put his brand on them and rustled them off to North Dakota...
...twenty-one hours a day I drank gin-and-hot-water to blunt the pain and took Dexedrine to blunt the gin and wrote the piece." Her new collection of magazine articles, The White Album, contains a disagreeably calculated column she wrote for LIFE in 1969. "I had better tell you where I am, and why," Didion begins. Uh oh. The student of Didion is not surprised to learn that she is sitting with her husband in a room in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu (a favorite stage setting), waiting for a tidal wave (which somehow acquires added metaphysical...
...tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. The naked woman on the ledge outside the window on the sixteenth floor is a victim of accidie, or the naked woman is an exhibitionist, and it would be 'interesting' to know which. We tell ourselves that it makes some difference whether the naked woman is about to commit a mortal sin or is about to register a political protest or is about to be, the Aristophanic view, snatched back...