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...another 3,657 for a host of tropical diseases. Among them are okara, a skin disorder that comes from a mosquito bite and permanently disfigures face and body with white and red spots, and uta, a dread parasite that produces strawberry-size warts that, if they burst, can bleed the victim to death...
...States," explained one. "Here bookmakers are rich, respected men. In the States, they are gangsters." Agreed the doctor from Atlanta: "They're better mannered about it, more cultured and genteel-like, but they're really no different from Vegas. The aim of the game is still to bleed you as quickly as they can without actually spilling it on the floor...
...time to end the masquerade. De Vries stands appalled at the equations of life, and cracks tragic jokes about it. The stuff of Let Me Count the Ways would be funny if De Vries' characters didn't bleed. Is it comedy or tragedy, for instance, when Stanley Waltz, the Polack piano mover in this slice of Midwestern life, ruptures himself trying to haul his piano-sized paramour into the bedroom? Is it really hilarious that Stanley spends night after night in his own yard watching his own wife undress, and must then justify this irrational behavior...
Positive Outlook. The institutions are moving back in because the market is sturdier than a month or two ago, and offers some good buys among the blue chips. The market has successfully absorbed a series of new stock offerings (notably General Aniline's), which normally bleed cash from other stocks, and it has weathered the usual rush of tax selling before April 15. On the international front, the U.S.'s military gains in Viet Nam, the nation's apparently successful campaign to narrow its balance-of-payments deficit and Britain's determination to solve its problems...
...tormenting a little Negro girl in his class. His assumption is that when the legal and extra-legal barriers to communication between races are hewn down, people will begin to see that they're all brothers under the skin, that the same things make them laugh and cry and bleed. Agape will take over. Then Americans may know the "majestic heights of being obedient to the unenforceable...