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...Amritsar opened up on Pakistani planes, citizens cheered each white puff in the blue sky, shouting "Shoot him down! Kill him! Kill, kill, kill!" Workmen put up baffle walls in offices as protection against bomb blast, shopkeepers pasted strips of paper to window panes, husbands and fathers dug slit trenches outside their homes. As hospitals were hurriedly emptied to provide beds for expected wounded, Indians queued up to donate blood. The capital's mood was reflected by a businessman who said, "We've been kicked around too often. Let us lose 200 million people if we have to, and have...
...slit the dog's throat...
...from Italy, where they were more charmed. In Rome, designers went black and white with an op twist-in everything from Valentino's sequined, zebra-topped lounging pajamas to Fabiani's chiaroscuro plaid evening coat. In Florence, Emilio Pucci produced print tights under an Empire dress slit to the armpits on each side. And Italians seemed intent on depluming the bird world too, particularly ostriches, who had better hide more than their heads in the future...
...thick brick building with slit-like windows was so designed because of lack of space and money, Babcock explained. "But like all good designs, it turned out to be very expensive--about $1.5 million. We made a lot of changes. The TV studio wasn't in the original plans. We had to raise the said his life is intertwined with ceiling two feet for that. WGBH will pull their truck right in here," gesturing at the dusty courtyard, "until Harvard starts its own station in the fall. Before long the whole University will be interconnected by television...
First comes the lunatic (Stuart Whitman) who insists he is sane, yet cannot recall much about the night his wife was found with her throat slit. Joanne finds Whitman's story irresistible somehow, perhaps because her own marriage has been-well, difficult. She no sooner gives herself to her captor than fresh revelations come splashing to the surface...