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...Rosenbaum, a contributor to Esquire and New Times who had once been a larynx at The Village Voice in the throaty pre-Felker days. He hadn't wanted to play Doc Holiday (hired dentist, that is) to Felker's Wyatt Earp, and got out to do eye, ear, nose and throat on his own. But it seems he's never made it past tonsillectomies--his major contribution to the inaugural issue is a light pan of soft-core pornographic advertising. No tough social criticism here: his oh-so-cynical ending is a quote from some Madison Avenue flunky...
...Ministry of Education in Tel Aviv, was impressed by the relaxed atmosphere in American schools, particularly in the open classrooms the group visited in Brookline. "To have 200 kids in an open space, each of them studying something different, would be impossible in Israel. Israelis are always sticking their nose into each other's business." She laughs. "Perhaps we need Lebensraum...
...George Washington, a huge crowd surged down Broad Way to wreak vengeance on the statue. Having drunk plenty of rum and ale, the crowd first pulled the royal horse from its pedestal, then hacked off the King's head, fired a musket shot into it, pounded away the nose and pried off the laurel wreath. With fife and drums playing The Rogue's March, the crowd carried off the mangled head, which eventually disappeared. The carcass is to be cut up and shipped to Connecticut, where patriotic women plan to melt the lead down into ammunition. Estimated result...
...very night of his arrival at the resort of Warm Springs, Virginia, Presbyterian Minister Philip Fithian witnessed "a fray between Mr. Fleming and Mr. Hall. Mr. Hall wrung Mr. Fleming's nose." The next morning, after "drinking early and freely of the waters," Fithian sortied out among the wooden cabins in the village to see if he had any acquaintances among the crowds gathered for the season. That night he observed "a splendid ball," as well as games of whist, five-and-forty and calico Betty. When he sought some night air out among the bushes...
...bookseller and printer. Needing capital, he enlisted the aid of Andrew Bell, some 20 years his senior, who had begun his career engraving dog collars and progressed to the eminence of Edinburgh's leading printer-engraver. Bell stands only 4 feet 6 inches tall and has a huge nose, but he disarms the mockery of others by making mock of himself. He mounts his giant horse with the aid of a ladder, carrying with him a papier-mache nose to enlarge...