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Make your own list. This intolerance -- the only form of discrimination designed to protect the discriminator's sanity -- is a natural reflex that can be trained. The individual's list of recusals conforms to his interests and prejudices. Customized recusal is superior to those presumptuous recitals, regularly published by Women's Wear Daily and others...
Like Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, London Fields should excite the love-it-or-heave-it reflex. Those whose sensibilities were tousled by Wolfe's rough treatment of New York City will be put off by Amis' pitch-black satire about the other sagging capital of the English-speaking world. But those who found Bonfire's incendiary social commentary amusingly accurate should spontaneously combust over Amis' latest export...
Child-welfare groups and educators in several areas are mounting public- education campaigns aimed at stopping the "report-card reflex." The programs, modeled after one begun in Houston by the Child Abuse Prevention Council, use newspaper ads, TV and radio announcements, school flyers mailed to students' homes and brochures inserted into report cards. All these materials contain the same basic message for parents: raising voices or fists is not the answer to raising grades...
Hailed as the finest-grain color film ever made, Ektar enables photographers to enlarge pictures to poster size with almost no loss of clarity. The film is recommended for use only with a single-lens reflex camera, as Ektar is currently available in just two speeds: very slow (ISO 25) and very fast (ISO 1000). Clarity will not come cheap: Ektar 25 is expected to cost about $6 for a 24-exposure roll, compared with $4 for Kodak's most popular film, Kodacolor Gold...
With lightning quickness, Loeser ducked under his lunging opponent and swiped the win with a "reflex touch." Loeser was immediately mobbed by his ecstatic teammates...