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...BELLY OF THE BEAST by Jack Henry Abbott...
Despite its 1980's setting, its language and occasional nudity, Stripes is, more than anything else, an old-fashioned service comedy in the tradition of Abbott and Costello's Buck Privates (1941) or Andy Griffith's No Time for Sergeants (1958). In fact, Stripes could have been edited down to suit any 1940's or 1950's audiences with very little effort. The two scenes of nudity are utterly superfluous to the plot and were no doubt included simply to garner the R-rating needed to be an "adult comedy," as are Murray's throw-away gag lines about kinky...
...result of such practices, a world-wide boycott was organized in 1977 against the Swiss-based Nestlé company, which accounts for 50% of formula sales to the Third World. Three U.S. firms-Abbott Laboratories, American Home Products and Bristol-Myers-together share 20% of that market. Two years later, Nestlé and the U.S. firms agreed to voluntary guidelines that banned such marketing abuses in developing nations. Antiformula activists say those rules were widely violated, so they pressed the WHO, an agency of the United Nations, to draw up the code adopted last week. Though they are not binding...
Like Dr. Johnson, Abbott Joseph Liebling was negligent in appearance and lean in his craft. His death in 1963 was hastened by a lifetime of overeating...
...before opening up with some tough maneuvers on the mat. After the wrestlers traded takedowns and escapes for a 3-3 tie, McNernet muscled a fast reverse for a 5-3 lead. Wrestling his toughest in the third period. McNerney scored a pivotal takedown and flipped Gary Abbott for a three-point near-fall and the 10-4 victory...