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...show is essentially a series of fast moving vignettes backed by a rock band playing in the dark recesses of the upper stage. They brush on life, love, war, politics, and alienation but the overt theme is usually beside the point. It is the style of each individual piece that really makes the show. Some have a verbal brilliance that suggests what Printer or Joyce might have done if they had been born in this country. One skit, called "Image Sales," is a staccato recitation of brand names, commercial pitches, and want ads that conjures up visions of America choking...
...Belgrade airport, he began to make it clear that Russia would gladly relax its pressures on Yugoslavia-for a price. That price: at least a partial return of Yugoslavia to the Soviet camp. While President Josip Broz Tito stood unsmiling at his side at the airport, Brezhnev seemed to brush aside Yugoslavia's nonaligned status by referring to the country as a member of the Communist bloc. Later, at a banquet in the handsome marble federal reception hall, Brezhnev toasted the two countries as being united "through common class interest, through the solidarity of ultimate goals...
...make the meson lab's tubes. Fitted with a small leather harness to which a strong, lightweight string was attached, Felicia unhesitatingly scurried the full length of the tube. She delivered her end of the string to workmen, who tied it to a swab consisting of a brush and cloth soaked in cleaning fluid. The swab was then pulled back through the length of the pipe, leaving the interior immaculate...
...Fuller Brush Banking. Most of these innovations have come from President Adess himself, a lively 59-year-old businessman unencumbered by a banking background. He honed his instinct for pleasing customers as a Fuller Brush salesman during the Depression. From there, he went into retailing, building up his hardware business before selling out to take over as Coolidge's president. Adess believes that helping young people is good business. "We think that aiding them now will bring them back as customers after they graduate," he explains. Basically Adess sees himself as a retailer of money. "We try to offer...
...belief, does not reclaim cleared land that has been depleted. Unless modern techniques of crop rotation and fertilization are used -techniques few of the impoverished colonists know-nutrients could be washed away a few years after the land is cleared, turning it into a desolate wasteland where only scrub brush would grow. "We honestly don't know what is going to happen if the forest is cut down," admits the agrarian-reform program's Jorge Pankov. "But when your belly is so empty that you have to steal to fill it, you're less apt to worry...