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...most visible messes are the easiest to deal with. A moist paper towel will freshen up your monitor; a cotton swab can scrape the crud off the rollers in your mouse; a good burst from a can of compressed air will get the dust out of your keyboard. If your computer desktop is as messy as your real one, that's easily corrected too. You just have to be merciless. Dump those obsolete documents. Delete old e-mails without looking back. Trash any program you haven't used since the last millennium...
...restorer Enrichetta Capodilista was working on the Massacre of the Innocents, she noticed that five of the women, whose children are being torn from them, have dark streaks on their faces. Her colleagues thought the marks might be water stains, but after she cleaned the women's faces with cotton swabs and distilled water their significance became clear. They are the desperate tears of bereaved mothers, their children dead at their feet. When Capodilista showed Basile, he responded: "These are the first painted tears of art history...
...Around 6 a.m. on a clear spring day, lawyer Jonathan Midgely was walking his two dogs in the Bowen Road vicinity when he saw a Chinese man in his mid-30s scattering food. The man had thinning hair brushed forward and an unusually round face, wore blue cotton work clothes and spoke passable English. The two men exchanged greetings. The man was "a bit strange," Midgely says, "not ominously strange, just as if he were a bit wacky." He carried a red plastic bag containing a trowel and bits of chicken that he claimed were for feeding the birds...
Horowitz’s counter-arguments to reparations are similarly ludicrous. Present- day companies, especially in the insurance industry, have admitted to being direct beneficiaries of “cotton money.” There are Americans who can trace their ancestry back to slave-owners, and some even take pride in this fact...
...proper parody, both men and women would stuff some extra cotton wads into that bra, stretch the hair extensions skywards another foot and shake on another container of glitter. Were the contestants to strut around in awkward heels and flutter those unnaturally luscious lashes, no one would mistake Miss Harvard for a standard beauty pageant—and the audience would still have a good time...