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...Vengeance will be mine, sayeth the Lord...
Loose lips, eccentric behavior-characteristics long affixed to this town-have to be searched for now, rooted out. Oh, evangelists still holler on the radio stations: they do not say things so much as they "sayeth" them. And H. Ross Perot did plan a commando operation against a whole country, Iran, to get two of his employees back. "Mad" Eddie Chiles-an ideologue who, says a longtime listener, "lives in a permanent state of incoherent fury"-is still on the air, and people drive around sporting bumper stickers that say I'M MAD, TOO, EDDIE...
...modern painting doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it; paintings have no function but to provoke and entertain, and that is the province of personal taste. But architecture is different. It affects us everyday, and when it fails us, our lives are the poorer for it. And, sayeth the prophet Wolfe with characteristic grace and enthusiasm, architecture has failed us on a grand scale...
...interesting to consider the words of the biblical Prophet Obadiah: "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and set thy nest among the stars, from thence will I pull thee down, sayeth the Lord...
...marriage contract; so naturally her fiance got one too. Finally, Ditchley's wife decided to start a career; $50,000 and two bankrupt batik boutiques later, she got into a law school. Now, whenever he tries to strike up a conversation with her, she mutters things like "Deponent sayeth not. " But Ditchley is sending Junior to law school too, damn the expense. A good father, he figures, does not send his son into the world defenseless...