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Slumping into the rear seat, he was still wiping his eyes when he heard an ominous click: up front, behind his bulletproof plastic shield, the driver had flicked a switch that locked both rear doors electrically to prevent passengers from taking off before paying the fare. "Where to, fella?" asked a voice from a loudspeaker overhead. John told him. The trip to the office was uneventful, until John put his $10 bill in a revolving tray in the partition and got back change for $5. When he pounded on the plastic and protested, the amplified voice informed him that...
...ignoring the cliches ("What Kind of Fool Am I," for example) for, among others, a pulsating "Nothing Can Stop Me Now." When he gets around to Frank Loesser, he follows the standard "I'll Know" with "Somebody Somewhere," a Loesser masterpiece of understated beauty (from the forgotten Most Happy Fella) that nobody ever sings...
...fella' to the hundreds he shakes hands with on a fast neighborhood tour. And how about President Johnson's hand flutter to airport crowds and his 'Y'all come...
...Adlow declared Avatar obscene. To ask him to read the entire issue, he joked lamely, would be "cruel and abusive punishment." The problem of determining contemporary community standards didn't puzzle the Judge at all, simply because he didn't even consider it. "I consider myself a broad-minded fella," he said. "And on the basis of a broad-minded fella's morals, I think Avatar is a filthy, illegal newspaper...
...language here outrages my sense of decency," said Adlow, Poppio suggested that "contemporary community standards" were not the opinions of one individual. "I consider myself a broad-minded fella," said Adlow, who is 71. "And, on the basis of a broad-minded fella's morals, I think Avatar is a filthy, illegal newspaper." Marshall Smith said last night that his stores would probably not sell Avatar until the case is decided in the higher courts. "It is unfair," Smith said, "to employees to expose them to this sort of prosecution. But I disagree vehemently with this decision...