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...center of this gray-market trade squats Veteran Plumbing and Supplies in Windsor, located near the border crossing over the Detroit River. For 55 years, Veteran's proprietor, Sid Awerbuck, 75, has made a nice living selling faucets, tubs and other washroom fixtures. But in the past two years, as the booming economy has pushed more and more Americans into new homes and onto the balky new low-flow toilets, trafficking in the old high-flush models has added 20% to his bottom line. And here's the best part: most of the outlaw commodes sold in Windsor are made...
...films' tone varied: they could teach with a smile, a scowl or a sneer. Some had progressive messages, favoring family planning, opposing witch hunts and racial prejudice. Others could leave lasting scars. Sid Davis' socio-splatter movies often ended in violent death, simply because a boy had driven too fast or hitched a ride with a homosexual. In Davis' babes-in-bandage Live and Learn, kids get impaled on scissors, blinded by BB blasts, or run over while playing baseball on the street. If only they'd watched this movie...
Indeed, if one were of the paranoid mind-set fomented by duck-and-cover cartoons and the Sid Davis oeuvre, one might believe that educators of a radical bent designed these films as reverse social engineering. They knew that kids would take dating dos as don'ts, and vice versa. Some children may never even have considered slouching until Posture Pals told them not to. Did the mental-hygiene cinema of the '50s create the hippies and druggies...
...didn't fade away. He just kept on gobbling, ate himself out of the box, devoured the competition and became Bezos. SID FRIEDFERTIG New York City...
...film prequel offered in The Phantom Menace. Gamemakers are starting to pull in big names. James Earl Jones, for example, stars in Command & Conquer's latest outing, while David Bowie is the driving force behind the forthcoming Omikron. Indeed, game designers are starting to act like directors--guys like Sid Meier (Alpha Centauri) and Adrian Smith (Tomb Raider) who closet themselves in high-end studios for two years at a time, ceaselessly fine-tuning their grand vision, their masterwork...