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...owner offered a reward of $2. Another item, headlined PROVIDENCE, told of that town's dedication of a "Great Elm Tree" to serve as its symbolic "Tree of Liberty." While digesting these and other colonial bulletins, a visitor to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington can wander backward or forward in American journalism to examine, say, the first regularly published newspaper in America (Boston News-Letter, 1704), or see news photos of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1937 crash of the Hindenburg...
...group and 30% of the drug group had kicked the habit completely or had cut down to ten or fewer cigarettes a day. By contrast, 60% of the rule followers had reached their goal. Presumably, if they want to learn to smoke again, they must now work their way backward from Rule...
...night Tolbert slept in the slums of Monrovia and announced next day a program of "mats to mattresses" aimed at giving every Liberian a proper bed. As a means of developing the backward and neglected interior, he called for a year-long "national rally" to raise $10 million in development funds before his 60th birthday next month. The goal was utterly unrealistic; by last week the campaign had collected less than $2,000,000, including $250,000 cajoled from the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the country's largest employer. But Tolbert defends his fund raising as a symbolic success...
...late '50s and, more distantly, from Duchamp's own interest in molding. That some of these Naumans are made of neon tubing does not alter this, any more than the fact that some of his word-pieces (e.g., a sign that lights up "R A W" backward and "W A R" forward) are neon raises them above simplemindedness. A second-or third-hand existence is intrinsic to his work...
...dance floor couples are doing everything from the Lizard to the Jackdaw Strut in response to the band's high-decibel efforts. As respite to ears and feet, a mentalist is brought out. He memorizes and repeats backward a long list of items thrown at him by the spectators. The answers reflect the evening's mood: lips, left breast, vasectomy, sandbox, postnasal drip. A new arrival, watching from a wallflower's position, gets a friendly approach: "Hi, aren't you talking to anybody? I'm Lois. You shouldn't be shy around here...