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...tears and ruptures that commonly result. Actresses are prone to Chlamydia of the eye from the semen that is sprayed on their faces in a mocking and malicious spirit—one’s face is, after all, the place of personality, so what better thing to plaster over with ejaculate if the objective is degradation? Caldwell’s comparison to fast-food workers doesn’t quite hold up. Caldwell calls Dines’ anti-porn stance “a strange collision of puritanical morality and radical politics,” but Dines?...
...like "Look here, son, when I was in fourth grade, reading Crime and Punishment and doing analytic geometry, I tried getting high on ketamine and it seemed great, but let me tell you why it really wasn't"? I held Sasha's arm and watched his face as the plaster cast hardened. He was tripping, staring into the mystical middle distance, breathing deep and easy. Was this the face of the next Timothy Leary or Aldous Huxley? Was it my fault...
...then it was over. Boy, was I happy to see that first grimace of pain. The plaster was hard, the X-ray was good and the child prodigy was back. He was still a little groggy from the Versed, but there's a world of difference between the sleepy-drunk effects of that drug (it's in the valium family) and the floating, hallucinating, who-am-I? mystical effects of ketamine. As Sasha returned to normal I tested the nerve to his hand. "Do you feel me touching your fingers now?" I asked...
...Lima on Wednesday, Carlos Lagos suddenly thought he was witnessing the end. At 6:40 pm (7:40 EDT) his apartment building began to sway and glass panes started popping out of windows, crashing down to the sidewalks below. The facades of elegant colonial mansions began shedding their plaster adornments...
...more money). They are not fools like the plutocrats who cursed the New Deal while it saved capitalism. American capitalism is in no danger. They are fools who, in search of dignity, give their gangs ludicrous Savile Row names like the Blackstone Group and the Carlyle Group. They plaster their real names on the walls of institutions dedicated to culture, health and other noble things, all in efforts to sanitize their money. Or--let's not be cynical!--in sincere efforts to show gratitude and share the wealth a bit. And then they still end up having to wonder whether...