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...Like a monstrous guillotine, the wall has slashed the arteries and nerves of Ber lin. It cuts through sewers and subways, severs bridges and thoroughfares. It bisects a cemetery, shears off churches and dwellings. Beside a green canal it becomes an ugly spaghetti-swarm of barbed wire. Along a quiet suburban street, its spine glints with jagged glass. The wall has separated sons from mothers, wives from husbands, friends from friends...
Monsters are out. After almost a decade of gigantic grasshoppers, monstrous mollusks and vicious vegetables, the menace merchants have surveyed their shrinking returns and concluded that overwork at last had killed the pterodactyl that laid the golden egg. With that the world's leading gooseflesh peddlers-American International Films of Hollywood and Hammer Film Productions Ltd. of London-decided to go back on the ghoul standard. The bats were summoned from the industry's well-stocked belfry, and in recent months they have been sucking the green stuff out of the public at an impressive rate. Three...
...wine and fried food, which induce cramps. Press helicopters hovered overhead. From tortuous mountain roads, where spills are bloodiest, TV cameras vividly pictured the struggles of storm-lashed competitors. A bottled-gas firm hired a dozen Paris revue stars, staged free shows in a portable theater at each stopover. Monstrous advertising floats included a 65-ft. hair-cream tube and a 17-ft. housefly whose electronic agonies boosted its sponsor's insecticide...
...radiator ornaments come and go, sometimes leaving only vestigial traces; eyes, front and rear, grow from two to four, then slip back again to two; some rare species, such as the flat-backed, silver-mouth Edsel, vanish altogether. Thus, in the '50's, when cars became monstrous, chromium-plated caricatures, buyers reacted against this somewhat unnatural selection and rushed for the European small cars, so Detroit turned compact. Now again, reaction...
...Monstrous Desire." Last week, thanks to a crusade launched by one of Paris' most respected gynecologists. Dr. Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weill-Halle, the belated revolution was stirring French doctors to action and open flouting of the 1920 law. Dr. Lagroua Weill-Halle's own conversion was typical. The daughter of a Roman Catholic Lyon family, she was shocked when she made her first acquaintance with le planning through a visit to a Planned Parenthood Federation clinic in Manhattan: "The desire to avoid motherhood seemed to me monstrous." But practicing in Paris, she met thousands of women...