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...last week some highly toxic public muck was flying in Waste Management's direction, and some of it seemed to be sticking. Former employees, including two who left to work for competitors and a third who was fired, charged that dangerous materials had been handled carelessly or even illegally. The attorney general of Illinois filed a $1.1 million lawsuit charging that 400,000 gal. of waste containing a potent carcinogen associated with dye manufacturing had been illegally dumped in a Calumet City landfill. And the company temporarily suspended disposal operations at an Ohio site after belatedly learning that...
...Python troupe have become a true flying circus, engaged in savage aerial combat with the institutionalized madness and hypocrisy of the age, performing their comic loops and turns dangerously close to a battleground that, they insist on reminding us with every low-swooping pass, is a sea of muck, blood and offal...
Most of his other friends he surveys with the same binary vision. He admires Margaret Leighton both personally and professionally; but when she divorces Laurence Harvey, he listens politely to her complaints, then writes in his diary how "it saddens me to see how these silly ladies muck up their lives. The moment they get their hooks into the gentleman of their choice they proceed assiduously to bash the whole thing to pulp with their tantrums and exigence ... It really isn't surprising that homosexuality is becoming as normal as blueberry...
...calls everyone 'my dear' a good deal, and over the whole book is a shimmering lack of understanding of the subject. I'm sure the poor woman meant well but I wish she'd stick to re-creating the glory that was Greece and not muck about with dear old modern homos...
...Multiflex likes things high and dry, likes to close fast in the stretch as he did last week (only to get nipped at the wire), likes to fly rather than burrow. Mr. Multiflex used to be a mudder. Used to be able to run through hell and high muck. Used to be. But not anymore...