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...leproserle in the Congo, to the Kikutu reserve during the Mau-Mau insurrection, to the emergency in Malaya and to the French war in Vietnam. There, in those last three regions of clandestine war, the fear of ambush served me just as effectively as the revolver from the corner cupboard in the lifelong war against boredom...
...underneath, or easily inflatable air mattresses topped with sleeping bags. Walls are decorated according to individual fancy: John Vajda, 19, and Tony Stepic, 20, are currently parked on a Pacific beach near Topanga Canyon in a 1953 Ford van with a red, white and blue interior and a kitchen cupboard done in stars and stripes...
...only thing to do, Sammy," she said. Love has its limits, and with that comment Myrna had just passed them. She obviously had to go. But how? One day I snagged the perfect solution-a rusty nail in a kitchen cupboard. Late that night, when Myrna was sleeping off the extra-heavy dose of fortified milk I had prepared for her, I scratched her, ever so gently, on the right instep-I did not want to hurt her. Within the week the toxin took hold...
...cover article on Love Story and the Return to Romanticism says more about America than Love Story itself; and Love Story , in turn, says more about greed and obtuseness than Erich Segal's 5' 10" body. Its only a conjecture, but maybe the chicken gumbo sitting in your kitchen cupboard tells less about ourselves in this age of media and masscult than Warhols jazzy repro, resting elegantly and silently, in the Museum of Modern...
...reaches 27. Deferments are rare. In any army, a recruit's life is uncomfortable at best. The Soviet army is no exception. The new recruit sleeps in tents in summer. In winter he sleeps in bleak barracks where he has a bunk, night table and a tiny cupboard for toilet articles. Once a week, many platoons visit the nearby steam bath (the traditional Russian form of bathing...