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Trying hard to seem casual, the first man offered the joint. The second smiled gratefully and accepted. He took a slow drag and passed it back. They studied each other. Both had bushy hair, full sideburns and city complexions with heavy shadow. Both wore those wraparound tinted eyeglasses that look like the windshield of a small Italian sports car. Both, despite some attempts at careful grooming, looked?well, sort of dumpy. They were wearing chinos, sneakers without socks and knit shirts on which even the tiny Lacoste alligators seemed ill at ease and vaguely apprehensive...
Males are very fragile. They can only operate in very fantasy structures-like the Pentagon and like the U.S. Government-with seals and all the wings and eagles. They have this fantastic panoply that males create. Males are always in drag, in a sense, even if they're in the Pentagon, always constantly elaborating these highly mythical structures. The thing the females do, of course, is break them, which is why it's a very desirable thing, often, to have females in the structure to laugh at the funny men in their Shriners' costumes...
...Instead of using money to duplicate Government programs such as Job Corps or Head Start, it can show Government how to reorganize existing agencies along a corporate model, so that results are more effective. Business and foundations should join to establish new models for welfare programs, without the drag of politics and often conflicting legislation...
...swim to the log and dump the coon into the drink in the shortest time (winning time: 11.1 seconds) is declared the winner. A well-bred sire can bring up to $9,000; raccoons come free to those who can catch them. The canine competition continues through drag races toward a caged coon hanging from a tree and another atop a floating gasoline drum. Among raccoon hunters this is all high art, punctuated by discussions about the bark, speed, height of jump and, above all, the nose of the animals involved...
Last season women were still able to zero in on occasional slim-heeled, delicate models. These days, it is a staggering task to find a shoe that does not qualify by sheer weight as a lethal weapon, and by overall appearance as the biggest drag on feet since the ball and chain...