Word: lint
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...Which of the five habitually rolls small balls of lint from the seams of his pockets, then flicks them away? He also likes to scrutinize the floor during interminable introduction speeches. He recently spied a pin on the platform and, ignoring the speaker, rose, picked it up and neatly placed it on a little table next to the speaker's stand...
Score yourself an expert candidate-watcher if you identified the lint-ball roller as Muskie, the engine expert as Wallace, the sometimes trying spouse as Humphrey, the elephant memory as Nixon's and the spick-and-span man as Spiro Agnew...
...surrealist anthropology or perhaps social-science fiction. Literature today is overshadowed by audio-visual art forms that threaten to turn into total pinball-machine environments. But Barthelme, 37, continues to demonstrate that language can be a mixed-media production all by itself. He translates the chipped teacups, navel lint, prattle and random static of life into even rows of words that twitter, bong, flash and glow signals of exquisite distress...
After a stint producing movies in Hollywood, Bloomingdale drifted off into other business, including a venture that developed a lint-free wiping cloth. Then he and two colleagues pooled $18,000 to launch the Diners' Club, which started off by enticing 14 Manhattan restaurants to honor its credit cards. The club quickly became a success - and its name a misnomer - as hotels, gas stations, car-rental agencies and a host of other business establishments signed...
...reduction in vacuum service--from once a week to once every two--will allow more lint and old newspapers to accumulate under beds and furniture, an annoying inconvenience for the more fastidious undergraduate. But the cause of the manpower shortage is certainly welcome: Students who work part-time can now wear white collars, instead of blue...