Word: tiredly
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...Palomar takes us to the zoo in wandering pursuit of order. There, instead of a great white whale at the end of his epic, he stumbles on the world's only albino gorilla, Copito de Nieve, holding an old rubber tire to his chest...
...enormous void of his hours, Copito de Nieve never abandons the tire...From it he can have a glimpse of what for man is the search for an escape from the dismay of living--investing oneself in things, recognizing oneself in signs, transforming the world into a collection of symbols--a first daybreak of culture in the long biological night...
...language, a model of words to fight the entropy of things. Calvino leaves us with a cozy picture of the outcome of evolutionary time, the image of the modern mind: Mr. Palomar falling asleep holding in his dreams the image of a great white ape holding an old rubber tire...
...Connolly, 43, an account executive for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Birmingham, Mich., was staying on the tenth floor of the Maria Isabel Sheraton. "The building swayed five or six feet each way. We were holding on to the walls as it went. It would go all the way one way and you'd think it was going over and you'd be dead. Then the next time it would sway all the way the other way and you'd think this time it would crash. Finally it righted itself, and we all ran out on the street." There Connolly...
...Rome, if not worse." Indeed, while scooter-riding bandits in the Italian capital still lift bags from foreign shoulders along the Via Nazionale, the petty-crime rate has actually dropped slightly, owing to increased police vigilance. One golden * oldie that still works: thieves slightly puncture a rental car's tire, and when a flat develops on the Autostrada del Sole, they pull alongside, offering to help change the tire. Before a victim can say grazie, his luggage is out of the trunk and speeding down the road. Bolder thieves on the outskirts of Seville, Spain, smash the car windows...