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...elderly woman in Columbus, Neb., turned on her color TV set, tuned in the Tonight show, and settled back to watch Johnny Carson. "And now--here's Johnny!" called Announcer Ed McMahon as the star skipped onstage--fetchingly handsome, slat-thin, loose-limbed, and wrapped in a Continental-cut suit. "My name is Shirley Hoffnagel," he began with eyes laughing, "and I'm here to talk tonight about the wonderful progress that medical science has made in sex-change operations." The studio audience rollicked to that line, but the lady in Nebraska rose from her chair, muttering, "That...
...Wearing flip-flops on the boardwalk We?ve seen it happen a million times. (And about half of those times it happened to us.) You?re walking down an old-fashioned wooden boardwalk, the kind with slats between the boards. Maybe you?re eating an ice-cream cone. You?re feeling happy, carefree. You?re enjoying the slap-slap sound your flip-flops are making against the wood. Suddenly, one foot catches in a slat, and you?re falling, falling, and landing on roughly hewn wood. You?ve lost your composure and your ice-cream cone. You have, however, gained...
...CHAIRS The recline of civilization began in 1928 when two cousins, Ed Shoemaker and Ed Knabusch, invented a comfortable wood-slat porch chair, choosing the name La-Z-Boy. They then decided to upholster the chair so it would sell year-round. La-Z-Boy Inc. had sales of more than $1 billion in fiscal...
...Slat 6 songs are strikingly simple: typically, there's one guitar hook, one notable response from the bass line, and a short song text whose point is a one-line chorus: then it's on to the next pop song, where they repeat the process. The paradox, if you want to call it that, is that their total simplicity of means ends up with such an emotional wallop: one tune and one line from this record can take over your whole day, if you're lucky. what remember of "Time Expired," for example, consists of the chorus--"Time expired, violation/It...
...other words, Rhodes is drawn to balancing acts at the edge of despair, above what he calls "a hole in the world." His was blasted open in 1938 when his mother put a 12-gauge shotgun in her mouth and pushed the trigger with a slat...