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...status symbol. Now comes a new twist: an ersatz beeper so that people can beep themselves. Press a small button. About 25 seconds later, a red light flashes and a beep starts to sound. The person can gracefully excuse himself from a boring business meeting or a dull blind date. About the size of cigarette lighter, this device, called the Timely Beeper, weighs 2.5 oz. and sells for $29, while the real thing costs some...
...list of living Nazi war criminals. Brunner has long been rumored to be living in Damascus, Syria, and last week the Munich-based magazine Bunte disclosed that its reporters had found him there. At age 73, it said, Brunner is missing most of his fingers and is half blind as a result of two letter bombs sent to him by unknown parties in 1961 and 1980. He boasted to Bunte of his war crimes, referring to the hundreds of thousands of Jews he sent to the gas chambers as "that rubbish." Brunner is still being sought by half a dozen...
Whenever a young Bradbury hero appears, a sideshow of grotesques cannot be far away. It is peopled by a "canary lady" who never leaves her empty birdcages, an enormously fat opera singer, a blind black man with at least seven senses, and Mr. Shapeshade, the owner of an obsolete cinema with one word on the marquee: GOODBYE. They and other harmless old creatures are the apparent prey of Mr. Lonely Death, "a happy child in the fields of the Antichrist." With the aid of a local detective who would rather be writing novels, the narrator winnows a weird field...
Nevertheless, one reviewer noted that Sackle's oddity could blind viewers to its qualities. "The Sackler's alternately amusing and infuriating clash of details may blind critics to its innovations," Time's architectural reviewer wrote...
Tunisians were enraged by the long-distance attack. Newspapers published dozens of photographs of dismembered bodies, and the government-owned daily La Presse described the raid as "the blind barbaric terrorism of the Israeli state." But what really angered Bourguiba was the Reagan Administration's enthusiastic endorsement of the Israeli action, which White House Spokesman Larry Speakes described as a "legitimate response" to "terrorist attacks." President Reagan declared that Israel and other nations have the right to strike back "if they can pick out the people responsible." He added that he had "great faith in Israel's intelligence capabilities...