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Furthermore, while American children sleep away on their six-inch mattresses and visions of G.I. Joe Sub-machine Guns dance through their head, kids in Slavic countries some-times sleep on beds of straw and hay on Christmas Eve so that they may share in Christ's humble birth...
...course of the one-act play, five people converge on THE LINE, a six-inch strip of tape, and vie to be first. It doesn't matter why they have come. Fleming wants to buy baseball tickets. Arnall thinks he is going to see a movie. But only Steve, excellently played by Richard A. Green, knows that there isn't really a reason...
...come her shoes were hardly scuffed? Other questions arose. Why had the radioman at the temple disappeared at almost the same time Aimee had? And who was that thick-ankled woman who had spent ten days with him in a vine-covered cottage at Carmel? The scandal broke in six-inch headlines, and Aimee, her mother and the radioman were held for trial on conspiracy charges; but after eight months of priceless worldwide publicity, "a certain person of influence" was bought off for $6,000, according to Ma, and Aimee won a dismissal...
...deep inside the earth through fractures in its crust. As the magma presses into new regions, it raises the earth on top of it. At the same time, land some distance away may gradually subside to fill the area vacated by the molten rock. That could account for a six-inch drop in the level of the resort island of Ischia, only ten miles offshore...
Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste by Gillo Dorfles. 313 pages. Universe. $10. A 16-inch-high statue of Jesus Christ with a clock in the belly is unquestionably kitsch-a German word meaning "rubbish." A six-inch plastic statue, of the same subject blessing an automobile dashboard is questionable kitsch, though the decision, like beauty, depends on the sophisticated eye of the beholder. Gillo Dorfles of the University of Milan has excavated the historical and contemporary worlds of religion, art, architecture, advertising and movies for kitsch artifacts...