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...come sliding down, as at Reckingen in Switzerland last week. Highly unpredictable, slab avalanches occur when one cohesive layer of snow breaks free of the ground or of other snow layers. They can be caused by rising temperatures that send lubricating water between layers of snow, letting the white blanket slip like a quilt from the bed of a tossing sleeper. Exerting forces as great as 100 tons per square yard, such avalanches have been known to upend steel locomotives, push small bridges hundreds of feet from their pilings and rip up vast reaches of forest...
Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, agreed that the proposed $1600 minimum is "too small," but added that a blanket hike of minimum payments would accentuate other problems of the present system...
When taken as a blanket explanation for the great preponderance of ideology (or anti-ideology) generated by the American public, the theories of "false consciousness" are ideological blinders. At best, they portray the very people whose banner I claim to carry as programmed cretins, hopelessly duped by ploys that are very transparent...
...counter-offer of two-thirds what you're willing to pay, and you whittle each other to the appropriate price. It can be a sport or a chore, depending on the wit and passion of the shopkeeper ("Ah! $5 for hand-made, fine hand-crafted, really real peasant blanket? The joke of my life...
...Producer Lee Mendelson (who also worked together on the TV specials) have scrupulously preserved the eternal suburb of the Peanuts parade, largely through the use of children's voices and subtle, understated colors. Once again, Lucy leads her girls' liberation movement; once again Linus and his blanket play variations on a thumb while Snoopy dogs the Red Baron in his dreams...