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Question: What would draw a crowd of 4,500 people-almost all housewives- to the opening of a Thom McAn men's shoe store in Davenport, Iowa...
...asked about the loud noises he was hearing. "Bombs, dear," said Nanny. "Elbows off the table." The last thing a very drunk nanny-generation Englishman does before passing out, the author reports, "is to stagger round his room, frequently falling over, trying to fold up his clothes, put shoe trees in his shoes and finally, now probably being sick but despite this, cleaning his teeth...
...Ship of Fools. Although the shoe fits, this is neither the story of U.S.S. Pueblo nor a rowboat full of Stanley Kramer devotees. A brilliant cast including Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner, Vivien Leigh, and the diminutive Michael Dunn nearly succeed in saving the sinking vessel, but there are too many of them and Kramer does not know how to keep them out of each other's way. Dunn's last scene is a masterpiece of monologue, and only this effort keeps both cast and audience from leaning over the side in unison. Channel...
Bloodstained panga knives and a slashed tribal drum lie in the middle of the dusty main street. A huge stork pecks for grubs in a gutted drygoods store, and weasels scurry in the debris. The main square is littered with broken rumba phonograph records-and an empty, bloodstained black shoe. From a pole at the town water pump flies the red-and-white flag of the Jeunesse Révolutlonnaire, the paramilitary youth groups who did most of the killing. The youth groups are run by the Tutsis' Party of Unity and National Progress (Uprona), which in effect rules...
...think you should put the shoe on the correct foot. Until the American public decides to change its ways of spending its dollars, it cannot be called "Nixon's crisis"-it must be labeled "America's crisis...