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...taken deep into the bowels of the Ministry of Information a bureaucratic, Leviathan institution no doubt based on Orwell's Ministry of Truth. A fastidious technician is clambering over an enormous teletype machine while in pursuit of an equally enormous, noisy fly, which he dispatches with his shoe. The fly falls into the machine, and causes it to type the name "Buttle" instead of "Tuttle" on one of its printouts, triggering a chain of events which we follow throughout the first part of the film...
...most interesting and enlightening features of my pre-Christmas season has been the 1985 Child World Christmas catalogue that stuck to the sole of someone's shoe and ended up in the middle of my room...
...cleats were white, the Puma kind with the little white leather swoops that you can't really make out from the rest of the shoe unless they're really dirty, and then the dirt just cakes around the edges of the groove and there you go--white-on-white swirls, defined...
Freeport (pop. 6,000) is a former shoe factory town 20 miles up the coast from Portland on old Route 1. Its factory outlets sprang from the success of Bean's, founded in Freeport in 1912. It now does $40 million in sales on Main Street and attracts more than 2 million shoppers a year, maybe 2 1/2 million. Edgar Leighton, president of the Merchants' Association, says businessmen looked at those figures and wondered, "How come I'm not getting some of that." So they came to Freeport...
This week in Cambridge: a shoe store proprietor was held up, a mental patient escaped, and a meter maid was beaten...