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...must also contribute to the desire by many blacks to stay apart. Students from all-white high schools, eager to build friendships with their new Harvard neighbors, are often unwittingly betrayed by their naivete. Many whites, for example, seem to think all blacks live in housing projects, and arrogantly frown upon middle class blacks as atypical or somehow extra-privileged...
...young Chicago secretary looks up from her fourth salad of the day with a frown. "If you eat right," she says, "you're supposed to want to jump up and down even if you have a gimpy leg or are mentally retarded. Only it doesn't work out that way. I mean, I eat the things I'm supposed to, but I don't feel any healthier...
March 17, 1666, Pepys commissioned his portrait from the painter John Hayls in Westminster: "I sit to have it full of shadows, and do almost break my neck looking over my shoulder to make the posture for him to work by." The portrait survives. The deep-cut frown line marks an appetite for hard, late work, the genius for politics and administration, by which a London tailor's son became the virtual founder of the British navy at the opening of its 250-year supremacy. The full, recurving, sensuous mouth betrays the man of pleasure. But the eyes...
Most restaurateurs suffer silently under a gourmand's assault, but they all frown on one particular variant, the Takeout Artist. At the Stockholm, for example, Manager White caught one soberly dressed couple making off with 4 lbs. of shrimp in a concealed plastic bag after they had finished dining. When White intercepted them, both complained angrily-and the woman dumped the smuggled shrimp on the floor at his feet. A pair of California counterculturists astounded the manager of Shakey's Pizza Parlor with the huge amounts of food they were putting away-until he found an excuse...
...fences or walls to guide those who come after them. The cat, for example, conveys the welcome news that a "kind lady lives here," while the canine image warns of a "vicious dog here." Other signs are a cross ("religious talk gets free meal"), two intersecting circles ("police here frown on hobos"), two wavy lines supported by a pillar and sheltering a small circle ("you can sleep in hayloft") and an indescribable squiggle that translates "food here if you work...