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...because one has heard of them. "Take Jane Fonda and Shirley MacLaine. That harshness, those granite glares, the shrillness of their rhetoric--it makes one want to shriek at their ugliness." To conclude, the author provides an antidote to all this ugliness: "Put the little woman on a pedestal, spoil her by protecting her, not by taking any back talk. Oppress her. She'll love it. Force her to be obedient and feminine and even her genetic traits will start responding again. That will bring her instant happiness...
...stars, of course, are best observed at night. But not just any night. To reveal anything in detail, the skies must be brilliantly clear, something that happens only about half of the time even in the most favorable climates. Moonlight or the glare from cities and highways can also spoil the view. As the twinkling of the stars shows, the dust and gases in the earth's atmosphere scatter heavenly light, thus limiting the effectiveness of every telescope, even such monsters as the 200-in. mirror atop California's Palomar Mountain...
...clumsiness on the fast track of Manhattan is likely to be regarded in Europe as the freshness and innocence of an infant civilization and in Japan as exoticism. Editors and advertisers in both places are delighted. As Henry James and others have observed, American female innocence tends to spoil within hours if left unrefrigerated in Europe, so the supply never equals the demand. French model agents in particular regularly scout provincial talent suppliers in the U.S. As might be expected, blue-eyed blonds, undiscovered Christie Brinkleys with brows as broad and untracked as the Great Plains in 1820, interest...
Dear Ann Landers: I'm a mail carrier and my job starts at 8 a.m. This is time enough for women to get a dress on and run a comb through their hair. Most housewives look so terrible it's enough to spoil a man's day. The Mailman
...speedstar Art Switcenko, Dartmouth took command of the race at the halfway mark of the six mile race. And though the Crimson tried hard to spoil Dartmouth's romp, it could not make up the difference over the treacherous hills of Dartmouth's home course...