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...year; in 1976 they reached more than $20 million. The grills are catching on worldwide; they are hot sellers in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. One reason for their popularity: with all the talk about energy saving, people have an added incentive to shun the gas or electric stove in favor of alfresco cooking...
Doesn't this show where the student priorities are and, if so, isn't it all a bit perverted? One hundred-sixty students march to eat a hot meal, feeling Dean Fox is oppressing them and overstepping their rights, while they shun away from issues involving the University's indirect support of some of the world's most oppressive regimes. This is outrageous, but it certainly doesn't show that students are outraged by Harvard's investment policies...
Jordan, the top White House aide, and Powell, the press secretary, dress as they please, ridicule pretense, joke incessantly, talk back to the boss, shun lunch at Sans Souci and rarely turn up at social functions; Jordan wears a black tie as if it were a noose. The pair are the wonder and dismay of Establishment Washington. They are country boys who have come so far, so fast, that the red clay of their native Georgia still clings, as it were, to their shoes, their accents and their lifestyles. They relish politics more for the pleasure than the power, more...
...Melchoir injected directly into the brains of laboratory rats a compound called tetrahydropapaveroline (THP), which is present in opium poppies and is used by the plant to manufacture morphine. Given a choice of drinking water or ethyl alcohol during the early stages of the experiment, the rats, which normally shun alcohol, always opted for the water. But, Myers and Melchoir write in Science, after only three days of THP treatment the teetotaling rats began switching to the sauce. Indeed, after a while the rodents became so addicted that they exhibited all the symptoms of alcoholism, including a rodent version...
Novelists are becoming steadily less audacious. Unlike their 19th century forebears, they rarely offer themselves as omniscient puppetmasters, privy to the thoughts and motives of an entire cast. Attuned to the jet hops of the screen-so the conventional reasoning goes-audiences will shun the long ocean cruises that fiction once traversed. Thus the fragments of 20th century life are all too often rendered in views, not visions...