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...pink thigh under a black mini-skirt. Off in the corner the inevitable lonely old man crouched over the Record-American, looking more forlorn for his old fashioned brown suit. A table of Negroes with conked hair and nail-head stovepipes. A bearded student reading The Mill on the Floss. Two gas station attendants just off the late shift. The whole crew...
Fast Footwork. S.E.T. is fraught with paradoxes. Its numerous critics note, among other things, that candy floss makers are given the tax break provided for manufacturers, but export agents, who contribute directly to Britain's earnings abroad, are taxed as service types. The whole tourist industry, Britain's fourth largest foreign-exchange earner, will be penalized as a service enterprise...
Having trouble reaching those nooks and crannies with your toothbrush? Unable to master the approved up-and-down stroke? Does dental floss shred in your mouth and stick between your teeth? Bleeding gums, perhaps? Then Aqua Tec Corp. of Fort Collins, Colo., has the perfect answer...
...Yorkers receive 13 billion pounds of perishable and 8.5 billion pounds of non-perishable foods annually; their subway vending machines yield close to 2,000,000 pounds of pennies. Daily, they chomp 3,500,000 pounds of meat, swig 460,000 gallons of beer, pull 21 miles of dental floss past their molars, guzzle and flush 1 billion gallons of water. The municipal corporation alone owns a physical plant worth more than $15 billion. And every facility is inadequate. No adjective is enormous enough to suggest the concentration of people, commerce, religion, sport, finance, entertainment, education, and art that...
...told by Richard Condon in his psychopolitical thriller, the story of Raymond was notable for its metaphoric extravagance ("There she sits . . . preening the teeth of her power with the floss of my joy") and its intellectual exhibitionism ("They tittered like thlibii"). As translated into cinema by Director John Frankenheimer (Bird Man of Alcatraz), the story is notable chiefly for a systematic error it makes. It tries so hard to be different that it fails to be itself...