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...subway; provide carefully conceived street signing to minimize unnecessary "lost" traffic; shuttle and tour buses should be as quiet as possible with direct routing avoiding particularly noise sensitive areas; design and construct the building mechanical systems to prevent excessive noise; construction specifications to prevent excessive noise, particularly from pile driving...
...feeling of having been pummeled. Brooks is like a young, slightly skittish fighter whose energy compensates for lack of finesse. He hits out wildly, continuously, hoping that a few punches will land. Since comedy audiences usually have their guard down (they want to be entertained and they expect the pile-driving), Brooks generally succeeds. He keeps the pressure turned up high, and the laughs batter their way through. The attack is so relentless, it can leave the viewer bruised as well as amused...
More Cutting. Now, however, as frightened consumers retreat further into their shell and unsold goods pile up, the capital spending boom is fading. Discounted for inflation, it has been dropping for the past six months and is sure to fall even more in 1975 (see chart). The result: an even greater likelihood that the recovery, when it comes, will be low and slow...
...cats, there are Prince Valiant suede tents, "powder-room screens," fiber-glass igloos and a Ko-Z Cat Cottage with pile carpeting, a sun deck, catnip bar and built-in mouse hole. For animals left behind by vacationing owners, pet motels and inns vie to offer such features as wall-to-wall AstroTurf, brass beds, Snoopy linen, piped-in music, color TV, bathrooms, beauty parlors, air conditioning, thrice-daily cookie breaks, and meals cooked to clients' specifications (including kosher diets). If the pet travels with his owners, there are guides listing only hotels and motels that welcome...
...enduring fascination of Sherlock Holmes. He has the mythic quality of a seer. He is a master illusionist of the mind, a cerebral magician. He simply does not belong in the ordinary annals of sleuthdom. Even such outstanding detectives as Nero Wolfe, Inspector Maigret and Philo Vance pile up and sift the facts. Holmes notes the evidence with something like X-ray vision and pulverizes it with weary disdain in a sentence or two. His fictional colleagues may be clever; he is clairvoyant...