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...would do well, young plebes, to heed the following advice. First, lie a lot on your rooming application. Telling the Freshman Dean's Office that you're mildly messy is inviting big trouble. Since no one describes himself as a certified pig, you have to say that only anemically immaculate roommates are acceptable to be grouped with only mildly piggy roommates. Don't say you are in athletic type if all you do is dance to Jane Fonda. Third, leave your ego at home. If it's not crushed by Joe Einstein it'll be crushed instead by some woman...
...have wound up in the '60s, with the strips and wiggles of the Hourloupe cycle, a series of puzzle-like arrangements of such everyday objects as coffeepots and bicycles. But he remained contentious to the end, part magician, part sausage grinder. "Many artists," he said, "begin with the pig and make sausages. I begin with sausages from which I reconstitute a pig...
...eleven, the couple preached a social gospel that emphasized literacy and reform. It was a monumental labor complicated by floods, famines and warlords. Hersey provides the necessary historical overviews, but it is the abundance of detail that reawakens the sorrows of Old China. A short list of levies: "pig-rearing tax, firecracker tax, opium-smoking lamp tax, marrying off one's daughter tax, narcissus bulb tax, superstition tax, lower-class prostitute singing tax, and, terrible thought, night-soil tax, so that one couldn't even defecate without paying...
...Houston awhile ago. They're still drinking, and they look 60 years old. That started me on the idea of bringing bad kids up here to the ranch this summer. Bad boys think cities is all there is. They don't know nothing about throwing a rock at a pig or pulling a fish out of the water. They read in a book, 'Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go!' But they don't know nothing about no river, no woods. They will when I get through with them...
Garn will serve mainly as the shuttle's human guinea pig. He will be subjected to tests designed to increase understanding of space motion sickness, an affliction suffered by about half the people who go into orbit. In one of the "gastric motility" experiments, stethoscopic microphones were strapped to the Senator's midsection to record his stomach noises at takeoff (NASA has yet to release a tape of the senatorial rumblings). Said Garn: "I am hopeful that I can fill in a few of the pieces of the puzzle in the medical department...