Word: excepts
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...murders per 100,000 people, against 10.2 per 100,000 in the U.S. The incidence of robbery was 1.9, compared with 234.5 in the U.S. gun-crimes of any kind are rare, in fact. Another reason: strict gun-control laws, which allow no civilian to own a gun except for hunting. Impressed with boxes, Japanese success, Singapore has installed police boxes, and San Francisco is studying the feasibility of adopting the system. Tokyo's Soeno thinks this is a Japanese development the U.S. would do well to copy. His view: "If ours is among the safest countries...
...will see very little of her husband, and unless she has a job she will see almost no one else except her children. The tradition of separate social spheres for men and women means that many of today's housewives, living in minuscule but easily maintained apartments, have hours of free time to fill with lessons and P.T.A. meetings...
...wears a blue-and-white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. Except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted), Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meiji print...
...side. "Got to Turn Out," is more of the same, except for a catchy bass line which, predictably, is burned...
...this reason finally, Speaking in Tongues also raises some rather intriguing and potentially depressing political questions about a music industry that is practically rotten to the core F. M. Radio and the new Music Television are in sorry shape in all ways except financial, not only in terms of vitality but in terms of simple human qualities. Black artists have--save for a select few--virtually no access to the staple of F. M. Programming, the execrable A.O.R., or to M. T. V., a veritable case-study in segregation. And there's no question that funk, which Black performers like...