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Certainly this was true for Kirkland House, whose three kamikaze crafts--loaded with smoke bombs, four cases of dry ice and rotten fruit--never made it to the starting line. Their plans to capture the "senseless violence" award went down in smoke and bubbles from the dry ice crates...
...been single and self-supporting for fifty years), her conversation plows with the delicate determination of a Sherman tank to the inevitable topics: food, family, marriage, and money. "Other people take pills when they get nervous, but I eat. All I need is a little piece of fruit...
...Butcher was captured, and shipped to America in a cage. Many of his opponents wished he had remained therein. Abdullah has been photographed attacking his adversaries with the severed leg of a sheep, with metal pipes he must have ripped out of the walls of stadium lavoratories, and with fruit canning equipment; at one match, angered by the disparaging remarks of fans who questioned his sportsmanship, he decided to inflict terror on his audience by perpetrating random violence, and deliberately crippled a sixty-four year-old veteran in a four-dollar seat. This man knows no mercy...
...similar effort, under way since December 1973, is now beginning to bear fruit. In the course of the next year, the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, a group of 42 prominent Americans formed by Nelson A. Rockefeller, will publish twelve volumes of monographs, studies, essays and research papers that attempt to describe our national problems and, in some cases, offer solutions. The commission fell on hard times when, nine months after its creation, its founder moved to Washington to become Vice President. The panels designated to refine the background studies met rarely. Instead, the commission is publishing the background...
There's a nostalgia song, called "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More"; a shoplifting song, "Peanut Butter Conspiracy," about how you never know when the hard times'll hit you, so you better keep your touch; a simple bouncing love song called "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"; and a ghost-conjuring ballad about an adultery/murder/suicide and how the newspapers missed the human tragedy: An it's just a Cuban crime of passion Messy and old-fashioned... Anjejos and knives a-slashing But that's what the people like to read about Up in America...