Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their summer lunch hours in midtown Manhattan, office workers now can pass up the hot-dog man in favor of felafel wrapped in Syrian bread, or quiche Lorraine, a gyro sandwich, shish kebab or exotically spiced vegetarian dishes. At stands on corners all over the city, teenagers sell juice freshly squeezed from oranges and watermelons...
...comfort and convenience," E.B. White wrote 30 years ago. "If they did, they would live elsewhere." They know that the city is too damned dirty, and no doubt getting dirtier, with about 50% of the sanitation trucks broken down at any given moment. (Miraculously, however, a new law requiring dog walkers to clean up after their pets is being widely obeyed.) They know that many once grassy parks have long since been scuffed to baldness. But most great cities have been dirty and dangerous-for example, ancient Rome, 18th and 19th century London. New Yorkers are now more...
Instead of paying bureaucrats, Soilih sacked them and loaded the civil service with illiterate teenagers. Then he outraged the large Muslim population by ordering women to stop wearing veils and by banning traditional wedding feasts. Last January he directed his loyal youth brigade to kill every dog in the islands. They scoured villages, tied the captive canines to the back of a Land-Rover and dragged them to death through the streets. Many Comorans speculated that Soilih had flipped out and gone psychodogmatic after a fortuneteller warned that he would be overthrown by a man with a mutt...
...with most other urban headaches, the problem is more serious in New York than in any other community. The city's estimated 1.4 million dogs dump some 125 tons of feces daily-not to mention 100,000 gal. of urine. This is not merely an aesthetic and emotional issue between dog owners and doo-dodgers, but a matter of health as well, since the minute roundworm eggs excreted by many dogs can be transmitted to humans, particularly children, and can ultimately affect the kidneys, liver, lungs, brain and eyes...
Every Lampoon fan has his own favorite outrageous moment. One occurred in January 1973, when the magazine's cover photo of a puppy with a gun to its head was accompanied by the headline, IF YOU DON'T BUY THIS MAGAZINE, WE'LL KILL THIS DOG. Off-Broadway audiences recall The National Lampoon Show of 1975, in which Gilda Radner playing Patty Hearst machine-gunned Steven Weed. Lampoon writers routinely savage Kennedys, Nixons, Third World peasants and American capitalists. No one, alive or dead, is sacred. The Lampoon's last issue included a fictional letter...