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Ordinary North Koreans seem afraid to express any views, however orthodox, on such matters. They make do on an average salary of $41 a month, most of which goes for food (a raincoat costs around $32 and a black-and-white TV $160). Rents are negligible or nonexistent. Consumer goods are generally drab and in short supply. Only imported Volvos, Toyotas and Mercedes racing through the quiet streets suggest a world of plenty beyond the walls of Kim Il Sung's socialist fortress. But North Koreans do not publicly acknowledge that possibility. As one movie commentary...
...that Nureyev can keep performing, albeit in increasingly less demanding roles, for 20 or 30 more years, though such endurance is rare among dancers. Certainly, the final color photo of Nureyev in this book seems emblematic of ambition. Dressed in a cocky fur cap and a shiny, blazing red raincoat, Nureyev is seen striding gracefully, and purposefully, forward...
...year-old U.S. Weather Service, John V. Byrne, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, its parent agency, promised that the Government would continue to distribute basic weather forecasts without charge. "The man in the street," he said, would still be told "whether he should wear a raincoat." These assurances are not likely to head off a storm in Congress, which must approve the sale. Groups like the National Farm Union are threatening opposition for fear of losing such no-cost services as frost warnings. Scientists are concerned not only that the amount of data available for weather research...
These were the words that just kept passing through my mind during the last Harvard-Dartmouth game in Hanover. I was sitting in the stands, and it was raining so hard that my raincoat--one of those leak-proof, rubberized specials--had soaked through. My newish jeans were plastered to my legs, which by this time must have been Levi blue from the dye that was forming a nice pool at my feet. Ah yes, my feet. My feet, shriveled to nothingness, were floating inside my socks, which were floating inside my sneakers, which had water streaming...
...looks over at the other two customers. They are starting straight ahead. He eyes the counterman, who is back on the pay phone--"It's four in the morning, we can't deliver to Brookline," he is saying. "Yeah, we got salads." The German man puts on his raincoat and scurries out the door. "Hey!" the counterman yells, letting the phone drop and dangle above the ground. He dashes out onto the street, still yelling, and disappears...