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...euphoric tour of Europe in 1921, did Hirohito try to step out of his court-ordered way of life. Seeking to emulate Edward, Prince of Wales, who had entertained him with considerable bonhomie in England, Hirohito threw a party for old school chums, who got uproariously drunk on a keg of choice Scotch and obeyed Hirohito's request to forget formalities. Next day an imperial adviser scolded him roundly for his breach of caste rules...
Aside from a white students' boycott last Thursday, with attendance back up on Friday because of the weekend football game, these mothers' marches have been the only formal protests in Charlestown. And the cries of Pat Russell, president of Powder Keg, an anti-busing group, "Remember, a mother's power is the greatest power on earth!" did not sound very stirring on the first day they marched, when the crowd of women met police several lines deep with riot helmets and nightsticks in their hands, waiting to prevent them from parading down past Bunker Hill Monument in front...
Ranging in size from six inches to 60 feet, all shark species lack skeletons. Essentially they are masses of cartilage covered by a remarkably tough hide (in itself a nasty rasplike weapon in the larger species). Theirs is an indiscriminating appetite. Everything from a keg of nails to a 100-lb. sea lion has been found in shark entrails. The biblical Jonah was there too, today's marine scientists theorize. Sharks are condemned by nature to a life without sleep or even rest. The reason is that they lack the swim bladders of the bony fishes, which permit...
...half a keg of shandy was particularly...
Barthelme turns a parodist's ear to several deserving sources of modern noise. A mock scenario for a film in the manner of Antonioni blurs the line between significant ennui and utter vacuity: "Shot of nail kegs at construction site. Camera peers into keg, counts nails." A news story of four Bunnies, fired from the New York Playboy Club for losing their "Bunny image," provokes a case history: "Bitsy S., an attractive white female of 28, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital complaining that she could not find, physically locate, her own body...