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...five grievances I submitted on February 17 was a safety grievance pertaining to the cutting of frozen ice cream. In the smaller dining rooms of North House (Holmes and Moors) the cooks must cut the 24-pound large ice cream cylinder into two squat cylinders with a sharp knife as it rotates. My grievance stated: "[The blocks of ice cream] are very hard and slippery as well as frozen, making them hard to cut. An accident while doing this could kill whoever is doing it. I am asking that this process be stopped immediately." But on March 3 the manager...
...Family in Moscow has considerable problems. It is obvious that the father is the journalist in the family; his writing is far superior to the other's. The mother often uses awkward construction and sometimes misuses words ("the fulsome trees hide the drabness of the gray stone city sitting squat on its giant plain.") The younger children write clearly like children throughout the book. Although they complained to their mother years after the publishing about the immaturity of their prose in the book, their literary freshness is usually charming and always forgivable...
...beginning you're spying on a massive institutional steel kitchen--squat black ovens, double-doored refrigerators, towering coffee dispensers, lumpy garbage, crates awry, King Arthur flour, sturdy crockery--as an electronic overture filters in with disconcerting urgency. Most of whatever's out there, wherever you came from, is left behind, and the rest gets distilled into a rarified fraction of reality, before it can enter The Kitchen. One-dimensional ribbons of a tune impossible to reproduce with human voices emanate from the portholes of insulated swing doors and from silver smoke flues--or is the sound just the whine from...
...comprised, from left to right, a tapering upper eyetooth which eroded a millimeter a year into the black pool of her gum socket, two long wedge-shaped frontals which overlapped like tightly crossed fingers...a lower incisor as yellow as sunshine off dusty grass, an El that resembled a squat, burnt-out matchstick, and a lonely lopsided masticator which jutted out between her lips even when they were closed...
...fans in Boston already gnashing their teeth over the Patriots, they're still playing baseball at places like Southern Cal and Arizona State. Bats crack over the desert almost all year round there--if Harvard plays 40 games in a season, USC plays 150, and the scouts squat in the hot bleacher sun scanning the diamond for kids like Fred Lynn...