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...double-breasted, eggshell blue, worsted herringbone suit; the candy-striped, English-cuffed, high-necked Herbert Hoover shirt; the custom-made blue suede monk strap loafers. It is hard for Journalist Tom Wolfe, 50, (The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby; The Right Stuff) to keep his identity under his hat, especially when it is a hand-blocked and brushed blue felt bowler like the one he is sporting in front of the studiously garish former Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art on Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The Wolfe in chic clothing, having savaged much of the modern art world...
...Lake is a world of dreams, of gnawing beavers, whizzing speedboats, amniotic whirlpools, fancy flights and flights of fantasy. Like Orpheus to his river, Joe eventually succumbs to The Lake. He succumbs to wealth, to fame, success and glory. He suffers only the wrenching pain of a boot strap as it pulls itself over a heel...
...name of the portable game is features, but these bring up the cost. The first of these is the two-band unit, covering both AM and FM; it has a carrying strap and a rear mounted switch for selecting AM or FM, a telescoping antenna and a jack for an in-the-ear headphone. It's possible to pick up stereo FM stations but these portables are designed for mono only, and have just a single small speaker. The power source is a single 9-volt battery. Total weight, including the battery, is about 10 ounces...
Like the censors who battled Oh Calcutta! and the judges who smothered Caligula, President Carter and Associates have been searching for a way to close the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's smash hit. An attempt to airlift the 53 performers en masse from the theater wings failed when a pulley strap of the deus ex machina snagged on a piece of scenery...
...reform platform, hired Tom Murton to clean up Tucker Prison farm as a warm-up to overhauling the Arkansas prison system. Murton made drastic changes; he assigned power to the prisoners and removed authority from the trusties. He put an end to the torture, even abolishing use of the strap. He released death-row prisoners from their dark, solitary cells where they had been sequestered for months or years without human contact, reading material, plumbing or light. He halted the corruption that had drained prison supplies, making it possible to feed the prisoners full meals with meat at every sitting...