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...make plane connections to somewhere important, like Miami Beach. And now, in the space of about a month, The New York Post--bang! New York magazine--zap! The Village Voice--good Lord, The Voice, for chrissakes--whoosh! All whisked away like lumps of hair and grease in the Draino commercials, sold off to some Australian. Not since young Citizen Hearst blew out of California 80 years ago to buy, with his daddy's considerably-more-than-30-pieces of blood-stained silver money, a socialist German-language newspaper and start the Spanish-American War has New York faced such...
...Antoni, as well as The Laughing Policeman's Stuart Rosenberg, are interested mainly in zapping their audiences. Force's liberal apologia count for naught when the director's only feeling is for carnage (a man's head getting shorn by a girder, or a pimp choking a whore with Draino). And The Seven-Ups' story of mixed roots in Little Italy--strong Buddy grows up to be a cop, while his weak friend Vito turns crook--is naturalism used to lubricate the gore machine. The Laughing Policeman is most barbarous of all: it primes viewers for two hours of pointless...
Recently, Sokolov used the name of celebrated bathrom product Draino misspelled it "Draino"--in one puzzles, defining it as a "Plumb- friend." Later, he was surprised through the mails a case of , sent to him by its manufacturer the Drackett Products Company, him proper spelling. Says , in explanation: "They used laugh when I sat down to write ssword Puzzles for the CRIMSON. n I got a case of Draino through mails. They still laugh when I sit --but boy, does my toilet flush...
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