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...Labels. Such were the origins of Grump, a year-old, 16-page bimonthly magazine that ridicules in print, photo and drawing what Price considers the "excesses of today's consumer culture" -everything from hamburgers named "Big Daddy" to "the proliferation of venality" to newspapers that "congratulate you during a blackout for not starting a riot." Grump even invents some excesses of its own: a game called "skull diving," for example, in which a man wearing a football helmet topped by a large spring bounces on his head out of the window onto the street. The instant the skull strikes...
Many of his fellow Cambodians, however, are setting fed up. With the cutoff of $10 million a year in U.S. military aid 13 months ago, Sihanouk's army has missed several paydays. Merchants are stewing over a downturn of business. Students and teachers grump about graft and corruption in government. And powerful Buddhists complain about Sihanouk's insistence that Buddhism is a socialist religion, implying that Buddhists can coexist with Communism...
...most light-hearted round buildings in the U.S. is a bank: the little Wells Fargo branch gracing the plaza of the glassy, curtain-walled Crown Zellerbach Building in San Francisco. Architect Peter Kitchell. design head of the bank for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, turns a deaf ear to critics who grump that the bank, with its fluted roof and carousel airiness, is wrong for its setting at the foot of the zooming Zellerbach tower. Says he: "The essence of our bank is its simple shape. The Wells Fargo people love it; the first manager there treated it better than his wife...
...Grump, grump," the lump offered...
...lump across the room protectively growled. "Grump...