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Fringe Benefit. Real security, most drivers agree, will come only when all cabs are equipped with immovable, bulletproof screens between driver and passengers (payment would be made via a tray that would slide between cabby and passenger), as well as driver control over back-seat door locks. New York's experience with the slide-open screen has not been too successful. "On a hot summer night," says a police spokesman, "what's a cabby supposed to do-drive with his window shut...
...Grapefruit is, rather, the droppings of a group of freshmen sitting one night around an ash tray. They are stoned and each now and then utters things which are astounding in their insight. OH-WOW's abound; each is fascinated with each one's wit; life becomes a trip of insights. In Yoko's book, these insights are called pieces; they are grouped into sections ; and, small wonder, the sections together are termed Grapefruit . Moreover, each piece is of the type so common to stone sessions: the instruction . The instruction is the message one pens to oneself when stoned...
...kinds of threories. I said, 'Why does he ignore me? Does he recognize that I am a foreigner?' "His voice had become taut. I leaned forward in anticipation," And I saw that this restaurant had hundreds of waiters," he continued more calmly. "Everybody carried a tray. So with so many waiters, they let a man sit?" Singer's face was wreathed in smiles. He was laughing so hard he could not go on. Finally he caught his breath and continued...
Wilson also says he is wary of an urban studies concentration spreading itself too thin. Instead, he "would prefer people studying cities within the context of an existing disciplinerather than shopping in a cafeteria and putting things on a tray...
...Dogs and Potato Chips" testifies to the influence of pop art on craftsmen. Blown glass potato chips really have to be seen to be visualized. The idea of doing this subject in such an elegant and delicate media. complete with paper napkins, plaster milk, and on an ordinary cafeteria tray really strikes the literary more than the visual funny bone. And Arneson's gawky earthenware bathroom sink is so literary that it even has a punchline-the brown splotch in the bowl is labeled "hard to get out stain...