Word: lint
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Still hedging their bets on that last question were the crowds at the Preparedness Expo at the Denver Merchandise Mart earlier this month, where several thousand attendants watched merchants demonstrate how to load a blowgun, use dryer lint to start a fire and cook an egg on a stick. Even survivalist stalwarts at the event were beginning to downplay fears that the Y2K computer bug will cause chaos come Jan. 1. "I don't think that the world is coming to a screeching halt," says renowned survivalist Bo Gritz. But in Paonia, Colo., Joy MacNulty, 69, isn't taking chances...
...good to know that apart from drying up the offending effluent they are probably helping to shorten the disease cycle. So stock up on those pills and syrups, and just think - this winter, you could be spared one of the annoyances of the season: the inevitable balls of lint left sticking to clothes after a long-forgotten tissue is put through the laundry...
...they can also engender maddening side effects, like the "lindane crazies": a drug-induced syndrome that isn't in the medical literature but is nonetheless real for its victims. "They come in with things taped to little pieces of paper," Serrano says. "It's just bits of cotton or lint. They say, 'I feel them right here,' but there's nothing. When you ask them what they've been using, they say, 'I've been using lindane for the past six months...
...essence, it's two hours of fluff. Not the dryer-lint variety either. We're talking sparkly, ethereal fluff here. Costumes by Academy Award winner Gabriela Pescucci and a setting under the Tuscan sun bake Titania's World in a glittery glow. Hoffman's only departure from The Riverside Shakespeare is his decision to set the romance in Victorian Italy--a transposition that further enhances the plot of romantic confusion. As the frilly dresses and neckties come off, the characters wander into a timeless forest netherworld, where sparkle is queen and the sprites are anything but virginal...
...shot him. There's Gale, who ridicules Freundlich's melodramatic pauses but turns down an on-air spot with another network because it is not as dedicated to journalism as he is. And there's Mona (Catherine Lloyd Burns), McKenzie's personal assistant, so toadying that she wears a lint brush around her neck...