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...walked for two hours. Then, almost suddenly, the brush country gave way to paddies, and we entered a small village. My guards motioned me to sit down, and someone brought a cup of water. In a few moments, I was directed inside a Khmer-style house sitting high off the ground on stilts. A young Vietnamese appeared and squatted down beside me. In broken French, he asked who I was. I told him that and much more: "I am a journalist. I come in peace. Once, after a massacre at Takeo, I helped some of your people." He listened stolid...
Some manufacturers make the most of a bad rating in CR by correcting reported faults. Some sue (none ever successfully) or try to counter CR in other ways. When CR judged an electric toothbrush dangerous if dropped in water, its irate manufacturer challenged CR to let him brush his teeth while standing in a tub. CR refused the gambit, and the toothbrush was improved...
...HAVE never been busted for pot, my hair doesn't brush my shoulders, and you won't catch me nude in the park. I am so straight, in fact, that I actually have a job. Yet despite my failure to display the more flamboyant trademarks of the Aquarian generation, I find myself on the far side of a communications gulf born of the 30-year difference between my parents and myself...
...take the chance, and sure enough, it was covered with a 50year-old brown tone applied for Prince Harrach of Vienna to make it look older. That was the fashion in those days. When I had it removed, the painting came alive. You could see the artist's brush strokes and even hairs from his brush. The Cleveland Museum had turned it down before. But when they saw it cleaned, they bought...
...minutes are spent considering the latex paint and high gloss on the polished wooden floors that have replaced whitewash and brush brooms, inevitably softening the mean reality of turn-of-the-century Texas hill-country life. Then the familiar voice of Lady Bird Johnson, tape-recorded and piped through speakers in each room, leads the group through: "You are now looking in what was the President's nursery. The small Teddy bear on the cradle was the President's favorite...