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Giuliani, of course, stands to suffer more politically from this mess - this is the mayor who styles himself as something of an autocrat, who enjoys cracking the whip every once in a while. He's all about law and order. For Pete's sake, he tried to stamp out jaywalking in New York City. So how could this attack take place in his city, on his watch, with the oft-chastened NYPD on the scene...
...There's a yarn store, for God's sake," she says."There used to be a yarn store on Newbury Street, but it didn't survive the rent increase or maybe the lack of interest in yarn--it has continued to survive in the Square...
Vanilla Val, Dr. K says: Change out of those poopy-pants and get on the horn. And, for goodness sake girl, go commando--leave those skivvies in the dorm room. Heck, you're graduating...
...would give me pleasure if the murderers got the deaths that they deserve. But I still say, on reflection, that, for the sake of our longer term health and moral ecology, there are some pleasures we should forgo. Killing the killers is one of them...
...title story, Dressing Up for the Carnival, opens the book by showing the people of an imagined town "putting on their costumes," that is, getting dressed for another day in their lives. The final story is called Dressing Down and reverses the procedure of donning clothes for the sake of identity. A man remembers his grandfather, a respectable YMCA director who spent every July at a nudist camp that he established on the shore of a nearby lake. His wife, the narrator's grandmother, strongly disapproves: "Naturism was not her nature. Nudity was the cross she bore." Shields portrays...