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...casual Parisian passerby, the contraptions look like smokestacks or versions of Colonnes Morris, pillars handy for posting theatrical notices. Actually, the two 16.5-ft.-tall towers just erected in the Gare de Lyon section of Paris are huge, electrically driven vacuum cleaners designed to suck in dust, filter it and blow clean air out the top. "Clear the air! Wash the wind! Clean the sky!" as T.S. Eliot put it. If tests made of the surrounding air show that the towers really work, 50 to 100 more may be set up around the city. But that would require more electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Washing the Wind | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...Liberals are nothing but vampires in dove's clothing," said Marianne Burke, a member of the Progressive Labor Party. "They want to suck the blood out of the anti-war movement...

Author: By M. D. L., | Title: SDS Leads Boston March Against the Vietnam War | 8/11/1970 | See Source »

...Antonioni" or $8.00 to watch a needle suck "its gonna be all right, scoo-be-doo-dah" out of a groove labeled, "Revolution." In the good old days you could be exploited by Jerry Lewis for ?.75. You could buy that soothing album by your favorite folk-singer for $2.50, lean back, and soak in "We Shall Overcome...

Author: By Dziga Vertov, | Title: Revolution... at 16 Frames Per Second | 7/28/1970 | See Source »

...however, typists had the impression that they were working less briskly. Hoover Co. had the same experience. Their engineers perfected an almost whooshless vacuum cleaner that promised to be a smashing success. But housewives, who associate noise with power, assumed that the new machine would not effectively suck up dirt, and it found a market only in hospitals and nursing homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Louder, Please | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...ghetto. The married guy who makes it on the side secretly; the guy who will go to bed once but who won't develop any gay relationships; the pretender at work or school who changes the gender of the friend he's talking about; the guy who'll suck cock in the bushes...

Author: By Carl Wittman, | Title: What Homosexuals Want From This Old World | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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