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...senior lieutenant earns 140 rubles ($155) a month, a colonel 500 rubles, a marshal 2,000. Along with the money goes the right to shop in special military stores; some generals and marshals and their wives are also entitled to use the exclusive Section 200 in Moscow's GUM department store, which is reserved for top party and government officials...
...visit Lenin's tomb, and staging the inevitable parade of atomic warheads through Red Square, the government has systematically smothered its consumer market with a myriad of "Lenin Centennial" products. In a manner similar to that of 1967's 50th anniversary commemoration of the October Revolution, visitors to GUM and other "people's " department stores are urged and obliged to choose from among "Happy Birthday Lenin" trinkets and chocolate cakes, Lenin Centennial ball-point pens and baby bottles...
...sounds dreary, but Erma can stir smiles with columns on how to handle a dirty oven ("If it won't catch fire today, clean it tomorrow"), hand-me-down clothes, daytime naps, gardening, sibling rivalry ("Who gets the fruit cocktail with the lone cherry on top?"), chewing gum, home barbering and the ids of March. "If a woman is ever to have an affair" a recent column began, "it will be in March. Psychologically, it is a perfect month. The bowling tournaments are over. The white sales on bedding are past. Your chest cold has stabilized and the Avon...
Merilee got up and skinned out of her clothes and put on her silver dangles and her musky Java perfume and her man made love to her in his old-fashioned crashing way, kneading her like putty, softening the art gum of her self and spreading her out in a thin layer to the far corners of the world. Coming...
...seem more interested in the beefcake varsity football squad than in Paul, who spends a good deal of his time reading The Myth of Sisyphus and contemplating the infinite sorrow of existence. A crush on a sexy cheerleader named Christine (Lada Edmund Jr.) gets him into trouble with the gum-snapping football star (Jon Voight) and makes him, if not entirely a man, at least more than...