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...Laumer much profit. To hold down labor costs to $2,000 per car, he employs his son, two daughters, a son-in-law and a master mechanic. But he contracts out all upholstery and painting work for another $2,000, and reaches far afield for authentic parts. The spare-tire mount comes from Argentina, for instance, the speedometer from the U.S.S.R., a water pipe from South Africa; Laumer gets only the chassis and a few other parts in the U.S. All together, the parts cost more than $5,000 per car, though Laumer hopes to cut the expense by ordering...
...stately, all-male silence quickly left after an irate hockey player indignantly commanded them to "Shut the hell up, can't you see we're trying to listen?" The party's high point came a few hours later, when members of the group took turns relaying a spare automobile tire to the top of the building's central staircase. Laughing hysterically, they watched it bounce around the hallway after a four-story drop...
...Pennypacker's students seem more satisfied with their surroundings this year, no one could be happier than their proctors. They now face, as one relieved proctor note, "fewer demands to serve as entertainers than last year"--which gives them more time to themselves. The decline in the number of tire-throwing binges, attempted swan dives off the third floor bannister, and other favorite pastimes of restless former residents is also a lot less trying for the proctors. Muller, whose country boy impulsiveness occasionally led him to join in the good times last year, still notes without regret that "the level...
...Marcel Duchamp, are seeded with such puns, parallels and quirks of meaning. Like Duchamp, he was given to embedding a kind of ironic lechery in his images?the supreme example being Monogram, 1959. Monogram remains the most notorious of Rauschenberg's combines: a stuffed Angora goat, girdled with a tire. The title is self-fulfilling?it is Rauschenberg's monogram, the sign by which he is best known?but why did it become so famous? Partly because of its unacknowledged life as a powerful sexual fetish. The lust of the goat, as William Blake remarked in a somewhat different context...
...tire of reading about all the time being expended to save convicted killers from their deserved fate. If you must talk about appeal, then say something about the impossibility of appeal by the victims lying in their graves...