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...that the system may work as advertised. The basketball player and what's-his-name unseal the reader's memory with a Tinker Toy assortment of mnemonic links and pegs. Assume, they say, that you want to memorize a random list of ten words: airplane, tree, envelope, earring, bucket, thing, basketball, salami, star, nose. Form a series of visual incongruities-a tree riding in an airplane, say, and then another picture of envelopes growing on trees, and another one in which millions of earrings fly out of the envelopes, and so on. The more grotesque and childish...
...Provence, where they can raise their child away from the polluted air of Paris, in rustic if very comfortable domesticity. Such is her idea of high romance that one of her main mementos of Christian is a snippet of his toenail-suitably encased in gold and worn as an earring...
...makecertain compromises (more of form, I think, than substance) to get along; but so do all rookies. The Washington force is sufficiently mixed up that even the insurgent policeman is one among many insurgents. (A black officer in my section was recently chewed out for wearing an earring at roll-call.) Occasionally the dissident officer gets axed by the system; just as often he appeals to the top echelons and wins his case...
...fully aware that no other Democrats were running. He promised "free everything for everybody." As for the marijuana and LSD problem, he said, "I would utilize laws governing fraud, truth in packaging and price fixing to ensure quality goods at reasonable prices." Such talk-and Kimball's hairy, earring-in-the-left-ear getup-so scared the good folk of Douglas County that nearly double the usual number of off-year election voters turned out to defeat him, 14,725 to 2,089. But they overlooked another hippie candidate, Phillip Hill, 22, who ran so quietly for justice...
...company were no less help to the cause of Afro-Anglo-American friendship. One evening after the day's shooting, for example, American Negro Actor Raymond St. Jacques wandered into the Plage bar dressed in a gaudy, pajama-like African garment called a sapara, accented by a gold earring in his left ear. A half-loaded American businessman turned to his drinking companion and said loudly, "Hey! Look how colorful that...