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...read as an allegory of Communist rule. Who but Stalin, for example, might have justified a famine in the words attributed to an apologist for Haile Selassie: "Between you and me-it is not bad for national order and a sense of national humility that the subjects be rendered skinnier, thinned down a bit. . . The usefulness of going hungry is that a hungry man thinks only of bread . . . One should always beware of those who have a bit, because they are the worst, they are the greediest, it is they who push upward...
...student at Harvard and MIT, points out that "women are much more often the victim of sexual aggression. My hunch would be that when they are the victim they might shy away from sex. Men can't deny their sexuality by changing their appearance. They just look a little skinnier. Whereas girls who are too skinny can look like boys...
Confronted with student unrest and the threat of martial law, they came home three weeks early, noticeably skinnier, newly bearded and disappointed that they had not been allowed to finish their work...
...there is the lesson of what is happening in the current fiscal year, when federal spending may well work out to total more than Nixon's hoped-for ceiling of $192.9 billion. The fat $5.8 billion surplus that the Administration once so cheerily anticipated will probably get much skinnier as the economy slows down and tax collections shrink with it. Nixon damned the Democratic-controlled Congress for putting his surplus in peril. "In the very session when the Congress reduced revenues by $3 billion, it increased spending by $3 billion more than I recommended," he said...
...commissioning the grandest city hall, in the 19th century, by bolting together the most cavernous railroad station. In the 20th century, cities began putting their pride in the sky and, until lately at least, the sky scraper sufficed as the symbol. Now the high-rise office has an even skinnier cousin, the cloud-busting television tower-generally equipped with a slowly rotating restaurant...