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...including local shopkeepers and two distributors, charging copyright infringements, trade disparagement and other offenses. Mickey and the rest, said the suit, "have acquired an image of innocent delightfulness and are known and loved by people all over the world." One shopkeeper observed blandly if accurately: "There are a lot dirtier things around...
...League graduates replaced on Wall Street by students from Fordham and Wichita State. The Yale and Harvard boys have been muffing the job lately in the same manner that Oxford and Cambridge killed off the British Empire. Perhaps the elite graduates can become gentlemen of leisure, albeit somewhat dirtier than their decadent predecessors. ABBOTT FAY Calcutta
...result of this zealous cleanup, Singapore has earned the title of Asia's Mr. Clean. The results can be slightly oppressive; some Singaporeans even long for the excitement of the dirtier old days. Not only have fireworks been banned, but one government official has talked about curbing the blaring of TV and radios, and has even suggested that the noise of mah-jongg, Singapore's favorite game, should be kept as low as possible...
Saved takes place in the now familiar world of redbrick slavery, of lower-middle-class depths, of dirty diapers and dirtier sinks. The characters are like seedy relatives whom one loathes and loves-caustic embittered mom, silent spine-shattered dad, sluttish frustrated daughter. Into their midst comes Len (James Woods) the perennial innocent, scarily looking for sex at the beginning, resignedly settling in as a paying roomer...
...response to his clear rejection by the members of his own party, John Lindsay chastized New Yorkers for allowing their city to be "captured by the forces of reaction and fear." Reaction? We're reacting, all right-to streets that are dirtier, to air that is fouler, to a public-school system breaking down at almost every level, to a three-year 100% increase in the number of persons on welfare and to skyrocketing taxes levied in order to keep the whole mess of an incompetent administration "moving". Afraid? Who us? Every ten hours in our "fun" city, there...