Word: broom
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...young clerk to the ladies' room and ecstatically dies of a surfeit. The clerk flees the jakes in horror but is blackmailed by Mrs. Macklin, who wants him for herself. But he cannot face the supreme sacrifice she demands and winds up in a catatonic state in her broom closet. By profession, Author Chopping is a commercial artist-he designed the dust jackets for Ian Fleming's James Bond books. His eye is microscopically keen. Unhappily, it is riveted on the Excremental Vision...
...hours of pushin' broom...
...stumbled down the stairs into a bright warmth. The gate was open: a bad sign. A man with a broom at the end of the station yelled down at us: "Wa wwa waa wa waaaaaa wa wa." Echoes...
...fair to them, The Wizard of Oz really is a horror story, with this grackle-voiced, green-skinned, chin-warted apparition hurling fire from rooftops, skywriting ominously with a flaming broom, or saying: "Now, my beauties, something with poison in it. Heh! Heh! Heh!" Hearing that, one child remembered hopefully, if a bit inexactly, that "last year Dorothy and the Wizard poured hot water on her and she melted." The Wicked Witch will melt again this year, but not from the children's memory. Into bed they will crawl singing "Ding, dong, the Witch is dead," only to stop...
...highest-rated show is ABC's Bewitched, in which Elizabeth Montgomery (TIME, Oct. 30) goes on "twitching her nose into other people's business," as the dialogue put it last week, reassembling broken vases, halting rainstorms, and engineering marriages through her special talents as an authentic but broom-less witch. If the ratings are correct some 32 million people watch this show each week, in which the same sort of thing happens over and over again- something breaks, the girl's nose twitches, the film is run backwards, the broken object is whole again, tune in again...