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...Murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practised." One reads such things nowadays-collected at last in Nancy McPhee's Book of Insults-and imagines a whole world packed with high-strung terriers, poised to yip at the slightest noise...
...every female over the age of nine are chained to the Scarsdale Diet, the Beverly Hills Diet, or perhaps by now a starvation routine concocted in some other overfed suburb whose inhabitants are rumored to be of ectoplasmic skinniness-is that more and more of us are now strung out on heavy cream, egg yolks, pure vanilla and-yes, oh yes-hot fudge topping with whipped cream, jimmies and walnuts...
NATO has now lasted 32 years, a remarkable feat for a very strange alliance, strung out from Hawaii to the Black Sea. The 15 members are the signatories of the North Atlantic Treaty, though one of them, France, seceded from the military organization (not technically an alliance) that implements the treaty -a massive inconvenience in NATO military planning. The heart of the treaty is Article 5: "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all." The drafters of the treaty wisely refrained from...
Freni retains a low profile in the high-strung operatic world. She and Magiera quietly separated after Micaela was married, and Freni now shares a Milan apartment with Basso Nicolai Ghiaurov. Says Freni of their relationship: "He can help me, just as I can help him. We try to appease " each other with love and humanity...
...side. The euphoric lift, the feeling of being confident and on top of things that comes from a few brief snorts, is often followed by a letdown; regular use can induce depression, edginess and weight loss. As usage increases, so does the danger of paranoia, hallucinations and a totally "strung out" physical collapse, not to mention a devastation of the nasal membrane (see box page 61). And usage does tend to increase. Says one initiate: "After one hit of cocaine I feel like a new man. The only problem is, the first thing the new man wants is another...