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...Molting Broom. While rock jockeys have never been noted for their dulcet tones, they have lately revved up their banshee banter in an effort to match the increasing amplification of the big beat. The Evinrude delivery stems partly from the fact that "total shout" radio sells so well these days that the decibelters have to talk faster to squeeze in all the commercials. Sponsors know that, as the jocks put it, to get the green from the teens' jeans you have to be beamed to the scream. Since not even Madison Avenue can conjure up their sales pitch, many...
Gowon is like a toddler trying to sweep out a room with a big broom-amusing and slightly pathetic. -Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu
...there are grown men and women today who, recalling Fantasia, cannot hear the Dance of the Hours without visualizing the delicate prancing of Disney hippos and elephants, or The Sorcerer's Apprentice without seeing Mickey Mouse trying to dam the flood wrought by a many-splintered broom, or A Night on Bald Mountain without shuddering at Disney's crackling thunderbolts and the satanic wingspread darkening a tumultuous...
...People who can see have a legal duty to protect the blind. In Upper Darby, Pa., James Argo, a blind broom peddler, entered an office building to hawk his wares for the 40th time in ten years. This time, workmen had removed the floor. Argo plunged 18 feet, suffered serious injuries, and won a jury verdict of $27,500. Rejecting the landlord's appeal, the Pennsylvania court ruled that henceforth landlords must foresee potential dangers to the state's 15,000 blind citizens. Argo, held the court, was entitled to the simplest imaginable safeguard: "The defendants could have...
...Robert Crichton, 41, a World War II combat veteran, is very likely the funniest war novel since Mister Roberts. The Troy of his hilarious Iliad is a wine-producing village in southern Italy, a town so poor in everything, including fertilizer, that its inhabitants stalk oxen with a broom and a pan. The Hector of the tale is the village mayor, a paisano whose native cunning has been reinforced by the study of Machiavelli. The Agamemnon of the story is a German captain assigned to rob the village of its only precious possession: 1,320,000 bottles of vermouth...