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...Micro-Art by Lewis R. Wolberg, 291 pages. Abrams. $25. A first-class attempt to prove visually that less is more. Photographer Wolberg offers a short history of microscopes, then dazzles the reader's retina with 220 amazing photographic enlargements of everything from the female sex organs of moss (blown up 300 times), to a virus (160,000 times its actual size) that greatly resembles an archipelago. The colors and textures are gorgeous, but at the price, they are a costly pleasure...
...Jefferson Airplane, reveals in Stereo Review that she once tried to turn on the President. Tricia Nixon had invited fellow alumnae of Manhattan's Finch College to a White House party, and Grace took along Abbie Hoffman as escort. She also brought 600 micro-milligrams of LSD for the tea. White House guards, Grace claims, threw her and Hoffman out. "Boy, were they right," said Grace. "I really would have done it. I figured the worst thing a little acid could do to Tricia is turn her into merely a delightful person instead of a grinning robot...
...public contact and the employers will not hire him, he has voluntarily restricted his chances of finding work." Hence the longhair is not entitled to unemployment insurance. The state office in Sacramento is backing Hammond. Only 3% of the employers surveyed want to hire girls who wear midi or micro-mini skirts either, but for the moment they are chivalrously being kept on the unemployment rolls...
...Another male group, also called POOFF (this time, for Professional Oglers Of Female Figures), has been formed by what its founder, James Knight, describes as "a group of unsanitary senior citizens, all of whom agree that the stock market goes down with hemlines and who would gladly vote for micro skirts above...
...past two decades. Industrial production dropped as much as 15%, corporate profits fell 21% to 30%, and unemployment rates hit peaks of 6% to 8%. Heller says it is a toss-up whether the situation the board majority foresees should be called a recession; he suggests "mini-micro recession." The important thing, adds Pechman, is that 'the U.S. is experiencing "a policy-induced pause" because of severe monetary and fiscal restraint on a naturally ebullient economy, rather than the more dangerous type of recession that is caused by basic weakness in business...