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...people and pollution, and it no longer takes a hydrologist or climatologist to detect it. Every American can see it in the air. You can stand with Nancy Reagan on the lawn of her sun-drenched Bel Air home above Beverly Hills and see a sinister tongue of smog lick out and engulf the office where her husband works just three miles below. Or you can walk along the low hills of North Dakota and scuff through the shifting soil that still blows against the stubble in the dry fields. Same message...
...Lick 'Em, Stick 'Em by H. Thomas Steele (Abbeville; $19.95). Once upon an envelope (circa 1900 to 1930), posters were reduced to the size of postage stamps. Some were tiny comedies -- a giraffe advertising neckwear, a pig promoting lard -- others dazzling designs by Egon Schiele and Rockwell Kent. They became, says the lively text, "the common man's art gallery," and this homage deserves the same stamp...
...past year as never before, TV shows have been alluding unashamedly to sex and even offering occasional nudity, while films have had explicit sex scenes. Last December at an erotic-art exposition in Moscow, a woman was covered in whipped cream and men in the audience were invited to lick it off; the scene was later shown on late-night TV. The capital even boasts its first touch of Times Square raunch, at the Tramway Workers' House of Culture, which last month began playing host three nights a week to a nude revue featuring a striptease and a simulated...
...health-food business is rapidly going to the dogs. Cats too. A growing number of nutrition-minded pet owners have started watching what they feed their furry friends. Worried that Fido has heart trouble? Serve him low- cholesterol biscuits baked by Lick Your Chops of Westport, Conn. Is Kitty overweight? Try a high-fiber, low-fat regimen from Hill's Pet Products of Topeka, Kans. At long last, people who buy fresh pasta and wheat germ no longer have to settle for plain old puppy chow...
Both sides then retreated to lick their wounds and take in some of The Game. While the fans were diverted by the flurry of blue and white to their left and the Crimson penants a-flying on the right, the band went on a sneak attack...