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Down to a Fig Leaf. Along with ponderation. Dontot has imbued Thomson-Houston with a dedication to long-range economic planning. Though French house wives have as yet shown scant enthusiasm for automatic washing machines, Dontot is convinced that they will come around in time, has doggedly plastered France with posters of a little man loading a Thomson-Houston washer with such enthusiasm that his sole remaining clothing consists of a straw hat and a fig leaf. Such investments in the future have paid off handsomely for Thomson-Houston. Currently, the company is swamped with or ders for short-wave...
...silent child, she would go outside and sit in the branches of fig trees. Sometimes she did not speak for days. "I've always been a very closed character," she says...
...advance promotion promised to lay sex right on the line. "Eros is the magazine of sexual candor . . . devoted to love in its every manifestation . . . It will not be fig-leafed by censors." The price only added to the excitement: $10 per copy, $25 for a four-issue yearly subscription. This week, with the arrival of spring and the rutting season, the first 75,000 copies of Eros went to charter subscribers and on sale at bookstores. One quick trip through the newcomer's 80 pages should have been enough for even the basest appetite to discover that Eros...
...Uganda, where women in the West Nile district traditionally wear only Eve's fig leaf fore and aft, there is now a brisk import trade in bras and pants, but dresses are still considered slightly immoral. Often U.S. clothes must be altered abroad because they are too big; in pigmy Africa men frequently wear women's coats. There is a fast Uganda trade in tuxedos for weddings and funerals, which are bought used for $1.50 to $3, worn once and then resold...
Webster is a moldy fig. For all its scholarship, the supposedly unabridged dictionary (600,000 entries) gives hardly a hint that the American language is in the grip of a permanent revolution. The Websterian ideal of language as a careful garden of hardy perennials and occasional exotics, cultivated by a corps of devoted lexicographers, is consistently challenged by a weedy invasion of the vulgate. Professors may still protest, but the public -and most authorities-tends to silence them. Says one philologist: "It was once thought that most slang came from the underworld, but nowadays a great deal of it comes...