Word: misereant
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...hidden behind the highest Himalayas. There Scrooge settles happily until a tin cap from a bottle of his nerve medicine is converted into a piece of coveted currency. Scrooge brings corruption to Utopia, just as, in another story, he almost brings industrial pollution to "the smokeless northern wilds." The miser skips out of Duckburg to escape the smog his own heavy industries have created, but the first glimpse of placid lakes and tall timber sets him to thinking about natural gas and paper mills...
...Teledyne Water Pik offers a nozzle that cuts water usage to 15 gal. during a five-minute shower without loss of pressure. A less expensive model, made by the Con-Serv Corp., retails for $13.95 and cuts water flow to only 10.5 gal. Cheapest of all: a plastic "water-miser" insert that costs less than 1? and was mailed this autumn by the Department of Energy free of charge to 4.5 million homeowners throughout the oil-hungry Northeast...
...does, amassing his devastated drilling sites in a collection of short stories called PROBLEMS. If you read them you will probably become depressed. Updike's over-powering stylistic genius overpowers his reader's better judgment, forces him to wallow in the miserableness of his archetypal suburban man, who wanders "an irreducible unit, visiting one or another of the pieces of his life scattered like the treasure of a miser outsmarting thieves." Updike outsmarts, creating melancholy without proposing how solitary suburbanites can collect these bits to make a life worth living. He collects problems without morals...
...never earned more than $1,800 for a concert, and his record sales (15,000 tops) would get him bounced off any major label. Still, he is the star of tiny Folk-Legacy Records (studios in a converted barn in Sharon, Conn.) and hoards his privacy like a bashful miser. "I have a friend who accuses me of stepping into an alley every time opportunity comes my way," Bok reflects. "But I say that's better than having footprints all over...
...women, who have been so miser ably treated throughout, are banished from sight, and all the macho figures are left chortling over their victories...