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...with Charles Bronson and everything, especially the slick director Michael Winner, but "fascism" in the picture can be taken in two ways. As always with movies being as frighteningly manipulative as they are, one identifies with Bronson as he walks the streets shooting muggers, or crowning them with a sock full of rolls of coins--you can't help it. And some can say legitimately that yes this is just about some creep who goes around offing poor people while they make a hero out of him. But in another sense one can find a general rebellion against urban life...
...best seller in the socks scene is a style known as the "toe sock" or "wiggler," which fits, glovelike, in between the toes. The toe look is so successful that one manufacturer, Bonnie Doon, will soon introduce a mitten sock that has one section for the big toe, another for the remaining digits...
...large portion of the U.S. economic decline is concentrated in the auto industry. Ford is gambling that giving Americans $15 billion back from their last year's taxes will produce a buying binge that will halt the recession. But some economists fear that too many worried consumers will simply sock their windfall away in savings accounts. That would make more money available for mortgages and help the housing industry but still not get vital auto sales up to normal and necessary levels...
Reasoning that a puncture would be less painful where there were fewer nerves, he pulled up his left pants leg, exposing a skinny calf and a sagging sock, and began scraping. The cut was not clean, and Horowitz forced a muttered "fuck." The grad students smiled...
...dance floor fills with couples reliving junior high sock-hops. Every few minutes a fellow who works nights for Penn Central and is calling in sick to be here, jumps up to imitate Lennon. "Back in the USSR. Yeah! Back in the USSR," he sings, waving an invisible guitar over his head. "Yabadabadaba!" shouts someone as a Magical Mystery Tour Guide throws a box of blurry photos over the balcony. Suddenly, there's a minor re-enactment of mobbing the Beatles; this time it's only pictures. Hands clutch at the paper, as though they were home runs hit into...