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...scowl with such contempt? Nothing; none; at no one; these glossy apparitions are as hollow as soap bubbles. The photographer has frozen moments that never were ? yet they tease us because their reality is beyond question, while our own stored moments, caught in snapshots and thrown into a drawer, are obvious and pallid fakes. Fascination sidesteps good sense, and we wonder: How was this lovely bunkum done...
...intent on maintaining secrecy about the contents of the speech that he insisted on keeping the file cards on which the speech had been typed with him at all times. Staffers were concerned he would forget the cards at Blair House, where they had been stashed in a drawer, but he remembered to bring them with...
Installment credit, which was rising at the rate of more than $3 billion a month in 1979, had slowed to a scant $146 million a month through October 1980. Credit cards are going into the drawer or into the wastebasket; more Christmas shoppers this year paid with cash than with plastic. Purchases that cannot be paid for immediately are often postponed. Last week when the washing machine wouldn't work, Cookie Sullivan, 35, a Winchester, Va., secretary headed for the Laundromat. Says she: "I'll be damned if my husband and I can afford a new machine with...
...shores of Lake Erie, she shook hands with him, "looked him right in the eye," and liked what looked back. Betty worked hard for Jimmy in 1976, but now she says she's "ashamed" of what she did. This year, she's hiding a Reagan button in her unionbought drawer. If the boss saw it, she whispers, he'd be awfully...
...authors of the challenged studies were understandably irritated. Cancer Researcher Beverly Paigen said that while her voluntary effort was only a preliminary study, "it would have been unethical to put it into a drawer and forget it." Jeered Love Canal Homeowner Marie Pozniak: "This is apparently the only place in the U.S. where you can eat, breathe and drink 240 poisonous compounds and be safe...