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...beast afire and sank it in Lake Ontario. The 22-ft. sailboat (worth $10,000 new) had been damaged during shipment to Montreal and had served Britannia poorly. Said disgusted Skipper Warren: "She was lame: kindness called for us to put her down." The task proved almost Olympian. Paint thinner sloshed on the decks to fuel the blaze evaporated before Crewman Hunt could kindle it. "His performance was wretched," said Warren. Canadian security forces, fearing a bombing, rushed a Coast Guard cutter, police boat and helicopter to the scene, and soon made plain what part of an 'orse they...
...feeling that noses were symbolic, and extremely influential in the development of one's personality. At the same time, however, he was fairly neurotic. Near the end of his life he began to believe that a spirit in his stomach was keeping him from eating, and he got thinner and thinner until finally his archaic doctors decided they had to bleed him. So where do they attach the leeches? To his nose, of course--he died insane, with leeches hanging off his nose. Kind of gruesome. Anyway, Diary of a Madman is adapted from one of his more famous stories...
When the bar was raised to 7 ft. 4 in., however, the tri-captain lost his form in his first two attempts. "A new height always creates a mental block that's tough to overcome," he said. "On my last try, though, I would have made it with a thinner pair of shorts," Embree added...
...Ahmed and the Old Lady, 80-year-old Leah Harding is traveling in the mountains of Kashmir in 1943. As the headstrong woman explores higher and higher-above the last town, above the encampments of the nomadic Gujar tribe, above the tree line -the air becomes cleaner and thinner and her life more elemental. The solitude and longed-for "power of seeing, really seeing" pull her onward. Leah's servant, Ahmed, shares her drive, but he is eager only to leave behind a life of error. Despite their backgrounds the un likely pair draw closer until the purity...
...erotic indulgence would lead her to fear that her lover would be literally consumed by the fiery intensity of their lovemaking. "What a frightful remorse it is to see the being one would give one's life for dying in one's arms ... to feel him growing thinner, wearing himself out, killing himself from day to day," she wrote of Jules Sandeau, the young medical student whose name she eventually borrowed and altered to make...