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...those more important, and blood on the hands of those less important, on the hands of all of us from those times that we have remained passive before the monsters who juggle maps and charts and words and ideas and men. Who pull the triggers, drop the bombs; who coat Indochina with burning napalm fire, and then in explanation, talk of values like freedom of self-determination and freedom of speech until even those freedoms, which radicals have traditionally championed, are appropriated to the hazy nonsense world of Pentagonese...
...Cosmonaut will feel even worse served when she tries to find a bra, an enameled teapot or a new coat. Soviet-made clothing is ill-fitting, poorly made, and fashioned from generally inferior fabric. There is a shortage of meat grinders because the planners cut back output too drastically after production one year slightly exceeded demand. Enamel kitchenware is almost unavailable. Reason: the output of enamelware plants is measured by weight, so the factories meet their quotas by manufacturing a few heavy bathtubs rather than many small kitchen items...
...available in government-sanctioned "commission" shops. There is also a black market in Western clothing, supplying trendy and kinky threads to modish Russians. Cost of a pair of white jeans: $30. Some items come right off the backs of tourists; they risk arrest for selling a shirt or sports coat to an importunate chap who later turns...
...clothing makers to compete. The machine, which looks like a miniature steel rolling mill, maneuvers a laser beam over cloth to cut garments according to computer-determined patterns. It acts with speed, accuracy and a flexibility that human cutters cannot match. It can cut a man's sport coat, a woman's skirt and a child's pair of shorts consecutively from the same roll of cloth. Genesco Chairman Franklin Jarman says that it will enable a clothing firm to introduce a new style in midseason, or immediately fill a retailer's unexpected order for additional...
Around 3 p.m. I was standing in front of the Coop with a friend when a boy reached into my pocketbook (an open canvas bag) and took my wallet. I saw him putting it into his coat and grabbed his arm telling him that I had no money or credit cards and would he please return the wallet. He replied "I don't have your mother-fucking wallet, lady." I told him I had seen him take it, whereupon he handed me a piece of paper which had been inside my wallet and said "Is this what you want, lady...