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...freaked out in a Messianic frenzy, she remarried a psychoanalyst and was herself analyzed a few times over. And after more married life Isadora Wing has had it with monogamy. Monogamy simply didn't turn out to be the golden dream the American commercials--body soap, bathroom cleanser, baby powder, cars, cigarettes, and coca-cola all with their golden couples--pictured it. And nobody else, not the Victorian novels she grew up on, not Doris Day, not even Peyton Place, led her to picture anything less. So Isadora figures she's been brainwashed...
...DEAD is a scurvy mob melo drama that nevertheless presents sever al new insights into the manners and morals of gangland. We note, for ex ample, that persons affiliated with the Mafia have a certain delicacy when referring to bathroom matters. "Can I use the powder room?" a sultry lady inquires of a beau. A bomber explains his eagerness to escape an impending explosion by gesturing toward the facilities, hopping up and down and muttering "Uhhmm . . . nature call." Further, it seems that the Mafia has taken matters of ecology straight to heart: corpses are deposited all neatly wrapped in plastic...
Just north of Great Bitter Lake, a U.N. station wagon drove up to a military police checkpoint. Vast clouds of dust, churned up by tank trailers, had all but obscured the "U.N." that had been painted on the once white vehicle. An Irish officer in a powder-blue beret shook his head. "How can we fix the lines as they were on Oct. 22 [the day of the first Security Council truce]? None of us were here then. We don't know where the parties were, and you can't believe either side. Our business...
...five houses because the slicing machine can't cut through the shriveled grapes. Just before moving on, we glanced into a recipe box and hastily copied one card. Recipe for oatmeal muffins (makes 100 dozen) rolled oats 10 lbs. bread flour 20 lbs. cake flour 20 lbs. baking powder 3 lbs. sugar 10 lbs. salt 10 ounces eggs 5 quarts milk 20 quarts shortening...
...Egyptian view, Ghorbal told TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, "we were made many promises, heard much about good intentions, were told sweetly to be patient [because] Israel will ultimately become convinced that it was in her real interest to solve instead of keeping the problem as a powder keg. But all this yielded to a later argument that we be realistic, that we were militarily defeated, that a partial settlement is better than nothing...