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Meanwhile, C.R.S. has continued to crank out perennials like "Pornography and the Law," "The Economics of Pollution" and "An Interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets." The catalogue also offers specialty items like the 14-page "Sexism: Does It Exist in Eleven Alcoholism Treatment Programs in the Philadelphia Area?" All are sold for cash only: "No personal checks accepted," warns the catalogue...
...might ask not whether Wilson is responsible for "defending his theories against distortion and misuse" but whether he is responsible for the actual manipulation and implications of his ideas. This is an important topic but an irresolvable one. Wilson cannot possibly bear the responsibility for how various minds crank perverse motives out of sociobiology. Mr. Nobel had little notion of the ways people would exploit his invention, dynamite...
...legend of Pygmalion. The most entertaining example is the life-size doll Olympia, a luscious soprano in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. At the end of every verse in her main aria, however, she droops and swoons until revived by several noisy turns of a crank in her back...
MOVIES IN AMERICA were once just cheap popular amusement--you'd put in a penny, turn the crank, and get your kicks. People soon discovered that movies could amount to a great deal more than just entertainment, but there has always been a plain, visceral fascination in the play of image and color on acetate in a dark room...
...Fogal yells on the intercom. "Crank it up!" The diesel roars to life. They move out over the dusty range. Three T-62 tanks appear suddenly nearly a mile downrange. "Gunner! Heat! Tank!" Fogal screams. The words alert the crew, order a high-explosive antitank round to be loaded and specify the target...