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...being as unobtrusive as the flies until I drew my camera. People either got disgruntled and ignored me with their peripheral vision, or pretended not to see me, or grinned as I grimaced at the inevitable clumsiness of taking people's pictures. Two waist-high kids came over to look at the bicycle. One spoke French for both of them, and told me about his father's bike that had a "pa-pa-put" motor on it so he never had to pedal except to get started. He asked me about the name engraved on the frame of the bike...
...developed into a routine of strange and sometimes demented daily tasks. The dead were buried in the snow, but as the snow thawed they had to be reburied over and over again. Group members became obsessed with locating their luggage and spent days and weeks probing for suitcases in waist-high snow. They snapped pictures of their predicament. Chunks of aluminum were fashioned into snowshoes; the plane's foam insulation was worked into sleeping bags. Snow was melted into drinking water on the sun-warmed fuselage; pieces of Alka-Seltzer were added to reduce cravings for salt. Talk increasingly...
...several minutes, and finally the hesitant Chinese agreed to make the deal. The four men piled into the green Cadillac and followed the gray Dodge station wagon to a dark, deserted street, under the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. Following the General's directions, one undercover agent walked through waist-high grass into the vacant lot. Suddenly, he knelt down and said loudly: "This is the package; this is the package...
...second longest single-span suspension bridge in the world.* Since the west side is closed to foot traffic, he walks along the bridge's east flank, ignoring a magnificent view of the city. Having reached the center span, he climbs without hesitation over the waist-high guard rail and-again without hesitation-jumps. Even if he hits feet first after a 250-ft. descent, the impact velocity of about 85 m.p.h. is likely to drive both legs up into his body, shattering his pelvis. Shocked and immobilized, he soon drowns in the numbing waters...
...fall of 1878, the two brothers and four of Moreton's hunting friends from Cambridge reached southern Wyoming and spent six weeks shooting. By wintertime, when it was clearly too risky for any sensible man to cross the Big Horn range, the two Frewen brothers slogged through waist-high snow to the spot on the Powder River where they intended to become cattle barons...