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...think in terms of meaningless and often destructive oversimplifications. It will be difficult to get support for the process of change if discussion of issues is confined to whether to be for or against the Supreme Court, whether to be tough or soft on criminals, whether to support or leash the police. The issues are complicated, and our thinking must be equally complicated...
...knew her name. The caves where they hid had been stocked with cans of corn and baked beans, which he shared with her. At night when he slept, Bicycle Bill chained her by her neck to a tree, and a couple of times tugged her along by a chain leash. But he did not physically injure her. When after several days Peggy's brown suede shoes wore out, he wrapped her feet in old newspapers and gave her a pair of his overshoes...
...came up girls. The last of the American line, a descendant of Fifi and Betsy Patterson named Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, achieved some prominence as a Man of Distinction in the Calvert whisky ads, but he died in 1945 of injuries sustained in Central Park, where he tripped over the leash of his wife's dog. The only male Bonapartes alive today are a 16-year-old boy (Charles Napoleon Bonaparte) and his 52-year-old father (Napoleon Louis Jerome Victor Bonaparte), a prosperous Parisian who drives expensive sports cars-scarcely a Napoleonic occupation, but (as one of the conqueror...
...labor movement of its dignity, and create hardship for New York City's populace [Jan. 14]. It is time for the union to curb its unrestrained economic appetite as well as its vituperative chief spokesman; otherwise T.W.U. may join Him at the end of the long White House leash...
...please his favorite contemporary artist, Hartford has filled his museum from top to bottom with 375 items of Dali's hitand-miss genius. But it was Dali himself who won best-of-show at a gala black-tie lecture attended by critics, socialites and an ocelot on a leash. Sporting his silver-handled cane, Dali held the audience in breathless amusement as he dashed off a sketch of a horseman to the tempo of world-renowned Guitarist Manitas de Plata and his flamen co-booted partner-while a museum aide scampered back and forth across the stage to keep...