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He could have smacked youfor running out of gas, at midnight,in December, at a middle-of-nowhere place,coasting a few sorry yards toward home on the shoulderas a passing eighteen-wheeler's Hawaiian-sized wave of airwhomped the side of the car like a two-story pillow.As we sat there immobile--the four of us (including him),as if waiting for the show to begin at a surreal drive-in--he wanted to reach into the front seatand bonk your heads togetherthe way the leader of the Three Stooges didwhen the other two did something stupid.What had been road was now a cold placewithout a house light in sight in the rural South.What had been a passionate highway talkabout the culture's indifference to the artist's workwould have been silence except for himgiggling at us, at how danger dissolves discontentand flashes before us a life lost to pettiness,which we soon start to lose again."
His weekly silence annoys some but affords him "flashes of clarity."
The paper declared, "A smile costs nothing, but it brightens up the moment for the one who flashes it, and the one who watches.
Meet the Press flashes a New York Daily News poll showing that only 30% of New Yorkers agree with Giuliani, while 60% agree with the museum.
But death flashes in the region anyway.