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...understanding agreement as Sectionman points out Rogaine imagery and influence from Mr. Lawrence's "real life." And, finally, just as somewhere in yourself you begin to feel that Lawrence really is pretty great, quite uncanny in the power of his perceptions and vision, ?apl they pull the rug out from under you. Sectionman will begin to smirk. "But, then," he'll whine, "the older I get, the less I like Lawrence. There is something so adolescent about his work. He becomes so [pause] tedious [long, sustained exhale]." Well, perhaps. But to achieve such dubious critical acumen at the expense...
...Sunday afternoon swapout in the lot of an Anaheim drive-in. So much for Merilee to buy in order to transmogrify herself into a proper Samfrau. A refrigerator, a stove to replace the habachi she had been cooking on since the move to Costa Mesa, a huge musty Persian rug to sleep and meditate upon, and many other cosas. Trippy old hinges for doors, rubber plants which manufacture rubber-bands, a larger cage for Birdie. They flaired out of the lot at last with the dowery nearly spent, Sam quiet, and the TR sweating hard to pull Merilee's purchases...
...McCulloch, wife of a New York journalist, felt stirrings of annoyance when a crew of packers arrived three hours late at her Washington home to crate her family's belongings for a move to Old Greenwich, Conn. She watched anxiously as they tramped mud on the expensive living-room rug and grumbled incessantly about their low pay ($10 an hour). At 3 a.m. on a Friday, the packers were finished and Mrs. McCulloch offered them a $45 tip, which the crew boss pocketed for himself. Then the movers came. They demanded that she list for them the contents of each...
...fact, that same chapter appeared last summer in True magazine, one of your basic rod-and-gun club publications, and on the cover there was a mud-stained Namath sitting in front of a locker filled with a llama rug, a bottle of champagne, and a naked girl...
...Adams junior said, as he was trying to wedge a large rug around a small stairwell in Bertrain Hall, "I used to have good reason for moving to the 'Cliffe, but looking at these four flights of stairs, I'm not so sure any more...