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...veteran phone installer for New England Telephone, revealed his illness in May 1985, co-workers refused to use the truck he had driven, demanded that the bathroom he used be disinfected and threatened to kill Cronan if he returned to work. The company put Cronan on disability leave. Todd Shuttleworth, a former budget analyst for Broward County, Fla., came down with AIDS in 1984. The county dismissed him and canceled his medical benefits immediately after Shuttleworth revealed his illness. Says Paul Swinney, who lost his federal prison-guard job in California after contracting AIDS: "They simply want...
...feel your heart leap?) Already proved successful in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Detroit and Windsor, Ont. (Canadian graffiti?), the "spray-on, wipe-off' Gobbler is right now being tested on the New York City subways, the end of the line. If it works there, its Australian inventor, Norman Shuttleworth, will be the Emperor of Gotham. No fame will equal his. His name will appear on every wall in the city. And then, quickly and easily, it will be gone...
...loftier than dollars. Vengeance? Civic duty? It is not surprising to learn that Australia has a subway, being down under, but can that lovely country have possibly reached the stage of mural riot that rapes New Yorkers every rush hour? No. There must be some holy altruism in Mr. Shuttleworth. Unlike other inventors, he is not giving the world what it never had before, he is restoring it to its origins. (One wonders, in fact, if there really is a Mr. Shuttleworth. His name is suspicious; it has a subway...
...graffiti had stayed at that innocent level, there would be no need for Mr. Shuttleworth. No Gobbler would have been welcome in the days when Kilroy was here. But Kilroy is not here any more and his, in any case, was a benevolent omnipresence. Not so with his successors: TURP, BOOB, HURK, DZ3, SONY, JUNIOR Y, SODA 1, whose names-if they are names-twist and bubble on the flat surfaces of our lives like virulent bacteria. No place in the country is safe, but New York City is actually under siege, its walls tottering under the cumulative weight...
...down Farmer Dick Shuttleworth with the phrase "Rube Goldberg contraption" when writing about his generation of methane gas from his farm's manure? He is providing power for himself, lessening pollution and, I suspect, getting some really decent fertilizer as a byproduct of his operation...