The alien pleads with Ed to help him, and explains that it can bring many benefits to Earth — cure for cancers and environmental technologies.

`` By telling him you are making passes at me ''??

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.

`` At 200, 300, 400 feet under the water, when he must be paying very much attention, he will be thinking about what you are telling him.

Really, you are most indiscreet to drive him here yourself '', he said, frowning with displeasure.

At least a dozen men, some armed, are never far away from him.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

These assumptions lead to an organization with one man at the top, six directly under him, six under each of these, and so on until there are six levels of personnel.

There are ghostly scenes in which the little boy on his rocking horse rocks madly toward the climax that will magically give him the name of the winning horse.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

But when these expectations are once too often ground into the dust, innocence can falter, since its strength is according to the strength of him who possesses it.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.

Without preliminaries, Esther asked him, `` If you are a world citizen, will you take Garry Davis' place in his tent while he goes to the hospital ''??

That he read some of the books assigned to him with a studied carefulness is evident from his notes, which are often so full that they provide an unquestionable basis for the identification of reviews that were printed without his signature.

Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.

Yet we who lean upon such a man and draw strength from him and expect interpretation of the infinite through him -- we who readily accept his sacrifice as our due, we of the congregations are the first to tell him what is in our minds instead of listening to what is in his soul.

There are some clubs which claim they learned something about pitching to him last year.

His desires are so strong that he needs constant reassurance of his mother's love for him and what she expects of him, in order to overcome them.

In the stands he is lonely and lost, no matter how many are about him.

He is a Buddhist, which means that to him peace and the sanctity of human life are not only religious dogma, but a profound and unshakable Weltanschauung.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

Twenty-four hours had changed him from a performer to a freak.

* 1946 – Popular Canadian-American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race ; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.

The 1983 Italian movie Il Petomane, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and starring Ugo Tognazzi, gives a poetic rendition of the character, contrasting his deep longing for normalcy with the condition of ' freak ' to which his act relegated him.

Looking like Joseph Merrick, he ran out of the store and encountered a circus that made him a part of its freak show.

With a freak stroke of luck, Billy kills the brutish and sadistic guard by pushing him on to a coat hook.

In the 2009 Star Trek film, it is implied that " Admiral Archer's " prized Beagle was involved in a freak accident when Montgomery Scott used him as a test subject for a transporter experiment.

Surtees dropped him after that year as he did not get along well with the Aussie, and Jones was racing in America when the Shadow team named him as a replacement for Tom Pryce, who had been killed in a freak racing accident in South Africa.

The Washingtonian labeled him a " speed freak ".

The Church Lady scolded him and his " Jezebel ", to which Trump responded by frankly telling her that he " could buy and sell this freak show, or dog and pony act, or whatever ".

In the Fox television show Malcolm in the Middle, Malcolm Wilkerson displays astounding feats of automatic mental calculation, which causes him to fear his family will see him as a " freak ," and causes his brother to ask, " Is Malcolm a robot?

He described his character as a " total control freak and the ocean beats him up and challenges him.

* The Man from Next Thursday, Part Two: The man from next Thursday relates his plan to his intelligent cat, revealing that his attempts to kill the Ripping Friends is based on revenge ; the Ripping Friends ripped the nail off his giant chest-thumb and then re-attached it on the wrong side, making him a freak in the world of next Thursday.

Nonetheless, when Spock arrives, Kirk insults him with a stream of racist abuse and taunts him as a freak who dares to make love to Leila.

Brock shows the typical " clean freak " personality when he sees messiness, which has even prompted him to start cleaning immediately on at least one occasion.

He led a normal life like any other citizen, until one night he was involved in a freak accident which resulted in him crashing his car directly into a brick wall.

Before the 2007 – 08 season had even begun Alan Walker was involved in a freak accident at a coaching course in Belfast which left him temporarily paralysed.

* Klaus refers to Joseph Merrick ( incorrectly naming him " John Merrick ") when discussing the cruelty of freak shows.

He then cages Gordon in the freak show of an abandoned amusement park and forces him to look at enlarged photos of his wounded daughter in an effort to drive him insane, thus proving to Batman that even seemingly normal people can lose their minds after having " one bad day ".

In August 1913, a freak snowstorm together with the fluctuations of a speculative grain market ruined him financially, causing an abrupt change in vocation.