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...Homeless" is never used in the singular. Nobody says, I passed a homeless yesterday with the wind chill at 12 below. Its empty palm was bright red with cold and it kept saying, `knyasparanychange? Knyasparanychange...
...casual approach with: "Come to think of it, I'll have a Heineken." Nonchalance notwithstanding, this ad wasn't very visually exciting, featuring a drop of water climbing up the side of a bottle. Don't the Heineken people realize that you can put poodle urine in a bottle, chill it, spray it with water, and watch a little droplet of H2O do exactly the same thing? I finally realized that European countries, who in general make fun of American beer, don't always export their best brew...
...power struggle intensifies, the political chill among intellectuals grows deeper, with new purges taking place weekly. Papers carry almost daily articles about the need for ideological control, and five weeks ago, Mao's strictures about art and literature serving the people, which were delivered in 1942, were suddenly resuscitated by Peng...
...lion -- only the eyes. And the lion is staring straight and deeply back. The eyes in the grass are yellow-black eyes, cat's eyes, emitting rays of measurement and judgment and hunger. "Only you, mzungu!" say the eyes. Mzungu is Swahili for white man. The visitor feels the chill of a savage attention. At last the Polaroid develops itself fully. The lion turns and lies in full view, spreading the beige grass and lying precisely in the posture of the woman in the grass in Andrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World. The grasses in Wyeth's dream...
...countries of northern Europe, more accustomed to harsh winters, suffered fewer casualties than their southern neighbors. West Germany reported five deaths. The four Scandinavian countries together reported a total of five exposure-related deaths. Nonetheless, the chill caused severe hardships. More than half of Denmark's 200 inhabited islands were cut off from the mainland. Icebreakers had to work day and night to free some 15 vessels from the frozen sound between Denmark and Sweden. Following a blizzard in the Swedish province of Skane, where temperatures dipped to -11 degrees, people were warned that they risked death if they ventured...