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...enough of turning Vonnegut into literary scholarship. Space Daisy would do great service to a deserving writer if she filmed The Vonnegut Statement. She could borrow the Slaughterhouse-Five technique of running the film backward (the bombers suck up their bombs which regress to factory parts and finally harmless ores) and so rebury the "objective correlatives" and "eschatological imperatives" in the uncomplicated plea sures and meanings of the original novels...
...balloons. It's a tank of nitrous oxide. NO2, what dentists use, laughing gas. He offers me the first balloonful. I've never been to a dentist who used gas but it seems like fun, and he doesn't have to persuade me to take it. As I suck in the gas, cooler than the air in the living room. I feel giddy but not dizzy, and I laugh a little. It feels like the moment before I passed out in the grass during recess in fourth grade, When Egghead sat on my back and I breathed...
...guitars. It's the end of the program, and Flip Wilson is standing at the front of the studio stage flipping the final wave as the theme music must be playing and the audience clapping, flipping the V. peace sign, and the show is over. We are still sitting sucking balloons like so many colored nipples of ambrosia. The album is still playing, and I'm still sorry those musicians wanted to play to videotape machines and cued audiences between commercials. But things are different now. I suck on my balloon, hard. It doesn't matter. I'm happy, sitting...
...actor, Christopher Lee, who has played Dracula in several films. He talks with some high school girls, and although the subject of vampires does not come up, he learns a lot about teen-age sex. He does find one 22-year-old sadomasochist who says he likes to suck blood...
...last week the Federal Trade Commission accused Xerox of having another, darker side. In a complaint charging that the company has illegally monopolized the $1.7 billion copier industry, the FTC said that Xerox has, among other things, ruthlessly stamped out smaller competitors, used its ill-gained market clout to suck in outsize profits from customers, and sought to perpetuate its priceless patents by reregistering slightly different versions of those about to expire...