Despite having fallen off the national political radar, Mr. Paul continues to make campaign stops in states that will hold primaries in the coming weeks.
Kane, meanwhile, returns home to find his ex-girlfriend, the endlessly profane teenager Kelly, waiting on his doorstep with a freshly broken leg, having fallen off a wall.
Everything is fine, even when he enters with his leather bag in tatters, it having fallen off his bike and been dragged for five minutes before he stopped in a bus lane, risking a ticket.
Well, consider that some of those unflattering assessments come from people sympathetic to Burns, who shot to fame with the publication of a World War II novel, "The Gallery," in 1947, and was dead six years later at 37, his literary reputation having fallen off a cliff, and the sum total of his worldly goods adding up to just $109.
The conductor Kurt Masur, 84, is said to be in good condition in a Paris hospital after having fallen off the podium and into the audience last night while leading the Orchestre National de France at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
She is returning from the hospital after visiting her mother; he is on a crazed, tailgating, horn-honking jag, having fallen off the wagon when the Yankees lost the playoffs — a loss that seems to stand in for all the other losses of his sad life.
