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...made it clear that Unruh is still the Administration's favorite Democrat in the nation's most populous state. As for Big Daddy himself, he could only mourn: "Sometimes I think the only thing I could do to stay out of controversy would be to cut my throat. But then they'd blame me for bloodying up the speaker's podium...
...film he hears no voice, there is no revelation of Beelzebub; indeed, the title is left unexplained. Simon simply sees a pig's head on a stick. The orgy at the fireside ("Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!") has swept the boys into frenzy. As Simon scrambles out of the woods, they fall upon him and, making him surrogate for the beast, kill him. A brief and poignant scene follows: in the warm cradle of the surf Simon's small body is rocked to and fro, swaddled in a glimmer of phosphorus until...
...stairs growing steeper?" ask advertisements in West German newspapers. "Or why is it that you must stop and rest halfway, with your heart beating in your throat?" The answer, according to the ad, is not to take the elevator but to take the cure at Bad Tölz, a gemütlich Bavarian spa* where "a new, particularly iodine-rich spring gives your blood vessels elasticity, your heart strength, your nerves fresh vigor." Like all the 140 officially recognized watering places in West Germany, Bad Tölz is itself in the pink of condition, thanks to a booming...
...York's emergency pavilion is almost a complete hospital in miniature. It has full X-ray facilities, its own laboratory, a suite of three operating rooms, a modern plaster room for prompt immobilization of fractures, a room for ear-nose-throat cases and dental emergencies. The only major demand not met on the spot is for "something in the eye": ophthalmic examinations require expensive and delicate equipment that would be uneconomic to duplicate, and patients are sent to the regular eye department on another floor...
...them, he told a startled dinner gathering on his U.S. trip last year, was membership in a club "which met once a year for dinner. The high point of the dinner was eating white mice picked up by the tail, dipped in honey, and dropped wiggling down the throat...