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...that we, in touring a house (especially an old one rich in objects and detail), cannot avoid trying to read the significance of its design, cannot help looking for human messages in the house's forms and for human intentions in the creaking of a door. When Nero begins spray-painting the outlines of people's feet that walk across his canvasses-that is, begins making paintings that simply record or imprint human events-the point becomes still cleverer...
...supposed to make some difference to the viewer that the lady plumber has been on vacation and has returned to be embarrassed by yet another stained kitchen sink. Dentyne's "no-hum mouth" marks a new low in tasteless breath commercials, and the feminine hygiene spray ads tell more than anyone could want to know about Dorothy Provine and Jill Haworth...
...Army in Viet Nam long used a defoliant known as "Agent Orange" without qualms as a crop-killing spray. Purpose: to deny food to enemy forces. Last year a secret study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute raised grave doubts about a prime ingredient in Orange, the chemical compound 2,4,5-T. When the substance was fed in small doses to laboratory rats and mice, 80% of their offspring were stillborn, and 39% of the survivors were deformed...
Whose Orders? In theory, permission to spray defoliants in a given area is granted by General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, and by Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. In practice, orders for individual defoliation missions are given on a much lower level...
...Agent Blue, whose use has not been suspended, is a solution of cacodylic acid containing 54% arsenic. In Viet Nam, where it sometimes gets into drinking water, Blue spray is used to kill rice and garden crops at a much greater strength than is considered safe for killing weeds...