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...advice did not meet with enthusiastic approval at the state agency. Said Anthony Papa of the SLA: "The mayor gets what, $110,000? For him to be brown bagging is ridiculous." Papa then countered with a blatant diversion, urging that Koch suspend the city's crazy-quilt parking regulations. Gibed Papa: "Those aren't too popular, are they...
...made me a promise. "You're not the first to fly out here and look around," she informed me with a patient smile. "Nothing ever comes of it, but I'll tell you what: if you can get some houses built for my people, I'll make you a quilt...
...time, the OEO built 400 houses on the Rosebud reservation--and Nancy White Horse was as good as her word. The quilt she sent was a brilliant patchwork of red, orange and white, with a large green star at the center. Diane and I still have it, buy we do not sleep beneath it: the artwork seems to delicate, the colors too fresh, to stand nightly wear and tear. Besides, our house has central heating...
...dining chairs. Yuppies angle for Queen Anne service as a wedding gift, then use their half of the service for everyday flatware after the divorce. As wedding presents, Yuppies give ski wax, an ounce of saffron or a specially written home-computer program, the Yuppie equivalent of a handmade quilt...
...most oblique attacks are the most potent. The creepy Dr. Millar (Graham Crowden), is a brilliant 1980s cross between Drs. Frankenstein and Strangelove. He sings the praises of modern science while placing a human brain in a blender and then proceeding to drink the elixir. He creates a patchwork-quilt human being out of the spare parts of patients, and when the head he has selected proves non-functional, he thinks nothing of lopping one off of an errant news reporter (Malcolm McDowell). Yet Anderson has by now amply made his point about the ominous potential of unchecked science...