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Quoth the sunburned satirist: "I look like a peeling billboard." Thus out of the bush near Nairobi, Kenya, strewing perels of witdom to mark his trail, came a hornrimmed, slyly befuddled big white hunter known to civilized nations as Humorist S. J. Perelman, 59. Having bagged a Broadway comedy hit. The Beauty Part, Perelman was an author in search of "four magazine articles." At the end of his Land-Roving safari through Kenya, he caromed up to London, hoping later to join a tiger shoot in India, then on to Burma and Bangkok to see what the jet-set drifters...
...runs out of an old innertube. At the same distance away are a telephone line and power line running down the highway." Scratches bulldozed in the desert are given glamorous names such as Riverside Drive. And in the center of this wasteland of sage and sand stands a giant billboard saying: THIS...
...state issues in his triumphant re-election campaign against Richard Nixon, was not about to change now. Brown laced his speech with specific state proposals. They ranged from the removal of some 840.000 low-income persons from the state income tax rolls to the strict control of highway billboards-"When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50; when a man throws a billboard across a view, he is liable to be richly rewarded"-and at least a moratorium on capital punishment. Declared the determined Brown: "I intend to invite...
...city, for 20 years prowls about New York in a perfect state of anonymity and anarchy. When an air raid has demolished New York in one of Goodman's short stories, the survivors agree to build a model society. They launch it by pulling down the last remaining billboard and unveiling a tree while listening, enraptured, to a recording of a Beethoven quartet...
Nebraska is fairly prosperous, and other issues come down to a conflict of personal political image. Morrison recently looked up at a big Seaton billboard and quipped: "Looks like a Hart Schaffner & Marx ad to me." Seaton, a publisher of ten newspapers, is indeed a well-dressed, well-pressed businessman, who cannot quite bring himself to match Morrison's sloppy suits and exposed suspenders. He has, however, taken to sports shirts in the cattle country...