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Boston police call the catnap habit "holing," and one of their favorite holing places is near a laundry, where several cruisers filled with slumbering cops were spotted a few weeks ago. Atlanta cops have been known to seek out "pits," usually in lovers' lanes or in a tunnel beneath the city. Los Angeles policemen are occasionally caught dozing on a jail pallet or in a patrol car. Just last week two Chicago patrolmen were suspended briefly for sleeping while on duty. In Washington, where the custom is known as "huddling," many a drowsy cop is awakened only when headquarters...
...Tunnel under the situation, come up behind the guards, and-POW!" That was Lee Marvin telling Roger Ebert, film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, how to handle an interview with one of those tough-cookie Hollywood types like-well, like Lee Marvin. "It's the only way to do an interview. Hit them straight on, or the s.o.b.s will clobber you every time. Come on now: 'Is it true?' Ask me something, 'Is it true?' " So the critic did, asking whether Marvin was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. "That...
...relates, a group of mice held a council to determine what they should do about a voracious cat. Finally one young mouse came up with a proposal to put a bell around the cat's neck, providing the mice with an early warning system. But with their tunnel vision, none of the assembled specialists thought to ask the most crucial question until a grey old mouse-a generalist, no doubt-rose. Who, he asked quietly, would put the bell around the cat's neck...
Over the years, he has countered with a great deal more. At 58, 14 years and nine books out of The Tunnel of Love, De Vries has grown slightly less punnish than he used to be, more dedicated to finding a way through the punishing side of American life. Age and personal tragedy have brought him to view the world as a cruel farce, redeemable, if at all, only through men's small devices for kindliness...
Snug Burrows. For nature study, the museum has taken birds and butterflies out of glass boxes and installed them in a simulated forest that the children can observe from overhead platforms. There is also a tunnel tour below the forest floor, where they can see wood-chucks, weasels and chipmunks all snug in their burrows...