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...group, whose members, rejoicing in their radicalness, felt a certain kinship to other piercees. The bond resembled that among owners of Jaguar sportscars, who honk loudly whenever they pass a confrere on the road. Also, ear piercing was a method of rebellion against parental authority. Mother, who had worn screw-on button earrings all her life, was horrified to see slivers of wood or tin dripping from her daughter's lobes...
...girl with holes in her ears simply can't run around with the wind whistling through her lobes. Consequently, pierced ears are a good excuse for wearing earrings on the beach, in the bathtub, and anywhere else where screw earrings are usually frowned upon...
...RUNNING MAN. With Britain's Sir Carol Reed (The Third Man) deftly applying each turn of the screw, Lee Remick and Laurence Harvey sweat it out as a couple who feign death (his) and grief (hers), then flee to Spain with the insurance money...
...found a right-wing reason for opposing it. He called the contract an effort "to disguise Brazil's progressive entry into the Soviet orbit." Goulart's resolve melted under all the political heat; he ordered still an other detailed appraisal of Amforp's as sets "screw by screw, fuse by fuse." With the original deal scratched, Amforp is left with the thankless task of operating utilities that drain more money and make more enemies every...
...before private plots." At a commune in Kwangtung province, where peasants used to have to supply the collective with 33 Ibs. of human ordure a month, their quota has been boosted to 55 Ibs., thus limiting the only fertilizer available for freelance farming. As an added turn of the screw, production quotas for collective output have been sharply increased, in hopes that the peasants will have to spend more time working for Mao Tse-tung and less for tsu-fa, meaning "self-prosperity...