"I'm tired," he replied, but he complied: $15 for the Babel, $10 for the Calatrava and $2.50 each for the softcovers.
He said he complied, emphasizing that, for him, guns were not the point.
"He said, 'Stop the car right here.' He said, 'Give me your money and the car and nothing's going to happen to you.' " Mr. Bell said that the man had a gun — he could not accurately describe it, saying apologetically, "I don't know guns" — and that he complied and reached for his wallet.
And it is telling that despite unhesitatingly refusing every request to write pieces for newspapers, he complied when the Times asked him to telegram his resolutions and hopes for 1984: "RESOLUTIONS COLON ZERO STOP PERIOD HOPES COLON ZERO STOP BECKETT".
And as usual, he complied, unwilling to face her talent for intimidation.
"I can't believe I gotta do pushups for 'fudge.' " But he complied.
She was reluctant but complied for her son's good.
Her husband, Andrew, an advertising sales representative, complied for a while, then reverted to normal hours.
Only once in a while they caught her suggestion and complied; for most of the set the music operated like a bludgeon.
Norway complied for a while, but its international reputation took a major hit in 1994 when it announced that it would disregard the commercial whaling ban.
