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From the Toyota Tercel driver on the Santa Ana Freeway in Los Angeles to the Volkswagen Rabbit owner dodging potholes on the F.D.R. Drive on Manhattan's East Side, the American-built car has become an object of derision and jokes. All too many American drivers now consider the cars they once fawned over to be simply too big, too heavy and too expensive. As car sales continue a yearlong slump and the auto industry faces its gravest crisis ever, an increasingly anxious public is asking: Why can't Detroit build more and better small cars...
...aisles, with the magician close behind, spinning a hoop around it to show that there are no hidden wires. Thirteen grown men, volunteers all, tie Blackstone into knots - which he breaks faster than you can say his name. He is also assisted by a camel, a donkey, a baby rabbit, an orchestra and a troupe of young and enthusiastic dancers...
Soon after Lewis Carroll's Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole, she finds a little bottle with a label tied round its neck. Printed on it is a short, direct message: DRINK ME. Prudently, Alice looks to make sure there is no additional marking saying POISON, mindful that imbibing toxic liquids "is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later." Discovering none, she obeys the command-and shrinks to a height of ten inches...
...hour. "I felt good about working." Before a spinal injury incapacitated her, she was a nurse and a census enumerator. Afterward no one would hire her. "Lots of people who are capable of working don't get the opportunity," she says. Except for a pet rabbit named Kortina, she lives alone. The linoleum floors in her living room gleam. The white curtains above the radiator seem to have just come from the wash and the ironing board. "I'm going to do more work for the city," she says proudly. "I wish more people in more towns could...
...Virginia Woolf. Though Yourcenar holds U.S. as well as French citizenships and has lived in Maine for 30 years, what bothered the twelve who opposed her was principally her gender. Philosopher Jean Guitton, 78, grumbled that bringing a woman into the academy "is like putting a dove in the rabbit hutch. One inhabitant like that makes the place overpopulated." After 45 years of work, the group's current project, a definitive French dictionary, has reached the fs, which means that Yourcenar has arrived just in time to explain féminisme...