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...order. Too late, they realize that the banquet is being held in the anus of the deceased dragon. "Must we die?" asks one. "You have already been dead a long time," Hans replies Then he instructs the animals to sew the dragon closed "so that all the lackeys who crept in will forever remain inside." As the animals bury the dragon, an iron curtain falls across the stage...
...theory, outlined by the University of Toronto's J. Tuzo Wilson, fits in neatly with the tenets of the new geology. As North America slowly crept westward away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Wilson says, the west coast of the continent eventually met up with another segment of the ridge system called the East Pacific Rise. But the moving continent did not stop at this natural barrier; instead it bulldozed right over it. As a result, the West now sits smack atop this hot seam in the earth's crust...
...midnight approached, the nonchalant mood that had prevailed along both banks of the Suez Canal swiftly evaporated. The 90-day cease-fire negotiated by the U.S. was ticking to an end. Israeli and Egyptian soldiers crept back into their bunkers. Lights were doused, guns cocked, vehicles halted, radios turned down, movies canceled. But midnight passed with no more hostile sounds than the whine of the wind and the soft swish of the canal water...
...also told them to go back to their seats. If they didn't, he warned, Bobby simply wouldn't come out. "Sit down!" the rest of the mob yelled at the offenders, and they crept back to where they belonged. Even the adults were beginning to get excited at this point...
Still, there is plenty of resistance. "These things evolve better if they are not pushed too hard," says Vincent DePaul Draddy, president of David Crystal, Inc. "The mini crept up over a period of years. The midi should now creep down over a number of years." It well may. Around the saltwater pool at Harbor Beach, Mich., a resort frequented by well-to-do Detroiters and St. Louisans, a group of women took a pledge this summer to use pantsuits to tide them over the midi indecision. Many women elsewhere apparently feel the same way. Across the country, pants sales...