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...Nothing to it. If MasterCard cuts your air hose, the Government comes to the rescue with a Nansen Credit Card-a Cartercard, they're calling it-and you're back in the stores without missing a beat...
...Three Musicians, 1921, show what Picasso could do when his sense of form was fully engaged. The classicizing drift of the early '20s took its most explicit shape in the Three Women at the Spring, 1921. Their dropsical limbs resemble a Pompeian fresco inflated with an air hose, even though the full-size sanguine drawing for the painting, which Picasso kept for himself, has the genuinely classicist air of unforced, continuous modeling...
...forever the idea that she had become 'Linda Lovelace" voluntarily." (Ms., May 1980, p.73) She describes her entrapment into prostitution, repeated beatings and raping: "guns being put to her head, turning tricks while being watched through a peephole to make sure she couldn't escape, and having a garden hose jammed up her rectum and turned on if she refused to offer such amusements as exposing herself in restaurants and to passing drivers on the highway." Like many prostitutes and battered wives, she feared running away would endanger her life and those of her friends...
...perfectly legal uses. Because McDonald's coffee stirrers, for example, can double as cocaine spoons, the restaurant chain recently withdrew them from use. Garden shops, too, could run afoul of such laws: Who can be sure what sort of grass the customer plans to water with his new hose...
...snow. Bootprints squished into the sideyard mud on a warm day two weeks ago are still there, fossilized, sandy brown, ugly to look at and awkward to walk across. The detritus of the fall season -a ruptured garden hose, a squashed tennis-ball can, a broken-off ax handle thrown away in a fury-surrounds the house as such junk always does in New England at this time of year. But the lovely, deceitful covering of snow that should hide it all until April, that should lead the eye across the sloping ground of the pasture, then into the woods...