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...friend met his Waterloo. He valiantly tried to cut out a rectangle in the plastic used for the second lamination so that the "Harvard 1987-88" validation sticker would not be covered up. But his hand slipped and his' razor blade wasn't sharp enough...
Step Four: Peel open i.d. He started from the bottom edge and pulled the pieces far enough apart to reveal the sticker. A razor blade was perfect for scraping the old label off the card and the clear plastic cover...
Japanese style? Japan is a wild hodgepodge of gimcracky downtowns and kitschy international design ideas mixed and mismatched, its capital a shrill, Blade Runner mess of traffic, shabby office buildings and meretricious Architectural Statements. Consumer products are bland or bizarre, and in graphics anything goes...
...people just cannot seem to take no for an answer. For the third time in less than a year, Ronald Perelman, chairman of the Revlon Group, is reviving his efforts to take over Gillette. Last week Perelman offered $5.4 billion in cash and securities for the Boston-based razor-blade concern. That is nearly $800 million more than his last bid, in June, which the company rejected as inadequate...
Golding, 75, carries off the impersonation of a polished but callow young blade of the period as convincingly as he did in Rites of Passage. For all of Talbot's well-heeled stuffiness, he constantly betrays, sometimes in spite of himself, his capacity for growth. Prolonged exposure to the "whole imaginable world" of his ship rattles his aristocratic preconceptions. The white line painted across the deck at the mainmast, segregating the common seamen and emigrants fore from the officers and better class of people aft, comes to seem ridiculous as the peril shared by everyone aboard increases. First Lieut. Summers...