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Smellies King. One of the newest wrinkles in T shirts is the Shirt-O-Gram, which features in large capital letters a Western Union-style message. Cost: about $7 for up to 15 words. Californian Chris Engen, 27, who created Shirt-O-Grams, custom prints the shirtfront messages and sends them anywhere in the U.S. One typical message: DEAR BARRY. CONGRATULATIONS. THE RABBIT DIED. PLEASE CALL...
...Hills) with such brutish authenticity that it won a Venice festival grand prize as best documentary. Part drama, part polemic, with shockwave sound and a nightmare air that suggests Kafka with a Kodak, the movie does exactly what it sets out to do-seizes an audience by the shirtfront and slams it around from wall to wall for one grueling day in a Marine Corps lockup...
...halfway down the hall. I finally went limp and fell to the floor, hoping that he would think that I was seriously hurt and slack off--he began kicking me in the ribs and I hurriedly considered the practicality of nonviolence in this situation. He grabbed me by my shirtfront--ripping it and straining himself--and dragged me back into the interrogation room (there I noticed that the police escort had drawn guns on the other dozen or so prisoners and everyone seemed quite nervous). All this time the deputy had kept up a high pitch shout of "Yassuh...
...baleful eye on Carlini, his Gaullist successor, and interrupted the preliminary business to demand an immediate discussion of the streetcar-fare boost. Carlini refused. Instantly the 24 "Cocos" began shouting abuse; one of them threw a chair at the mayor. A woman Socialist thereupon spattered Communist Cristofol's shirtfront with ink and spat in his face...
...John C. H. Lee hitched up his belt smoothed his shirtfront, braced his shoulders and prepared yesterday to face an investigation of his command at Leghorn, Italy, after charges of varied abuses by a newspaperman...