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McElroy said that "roughly half" of the freon now being released into the upper atmosphere comes from spray cans. Freon causes most of the reduction of the ozone layer, he said...
...pizza parlors, distributing their literature. A little blond boy of about four chants in his mother's arms, "Who's got the money? Who makes the rules? Kids can't learn in racist schools." Suddenly the march halts. It creeps forward. There is a spasmodic jerk back. A spray of placards spumes to the pavement. All is quiet. Then it erupts...
Night arrives and the Young Eternal Souls from St. Louis replace Professor George Wald at the microphone. Two kids spray-paint a sidewalk red and blue. It is too dark to read their message. The Commons is sodded with cans, lunchbags, styrofoam cups and leaflets. The trees are strung with red, white and blue lights, with some green ones over by Park Street...
...only appears in time for the season's first sniffles but also in the wake of what might be called the new hypochondria. Two famous mastectomies, plus frightening books and articles about heart attacks and the cancer-causing properties of such common substances as asbestos and spray-can propellants have added to our usual anxieties. Yet as millions of people over 60 will recall, for real drenching fear nothing tops an old-fashioned plague...
...completely in the sun . . . among his bones will be one that resembles a fish hook ... To win your intended lover, hook the fishbone into his clothing. . ." Faith Cross, a backwoods believer, journeys to Chicago and becomes first a wholehearted whore, then an adipose housewife, anesthetized by hair spray and appliance hum, then, cast off and pregnant, the victim of a ghetto fire Finally back in Georgia, withered and maimed, she completes the seven ages of black woman (something like this seems to be in the author's mind) by be coming a swamp witch herself...