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...August, the authorities had built special premises so as to keep me in utter solitary confinement. The walls and ceiling were painted dazzling white, and just above my head, my jailers installed ten neon tubes about five feet long. These were kept on all the time, throwing off a blinding light that caused my sight to be damaged...
About four centuries after Shakespeare wrote, "Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath," Mose Coleman harvested the first Vidalia onion, ate it and found, among other things, that his breath would not fell a mule. That was in 1931, and Coleman, who is now 82, took his onion to a buyer for a food-store chain. "I pulled out my onion and my knife," he recalls, "and I ate it there in front of him. He'd never seen anything like it. There wasn't any tears coming out of my eyes...
...Dustin Hoffman were filming a remake of The Graduate, the well-meaning family friend who pulled him aside to utter one word worth a million dollars would not say "Plastics." Today he would whisper "Aseptics." That is the name for a kind of packaging technique, a sort of second cousin to the retort pouch used by campers. Aseptics may change American packaging in the '80s the way plastics replaced many paper and cellophane wrappings in the '60s. In brown bags and school lunch boxes across the U.S., little boxes of fruit juice and other drinks are becoming...
...atrophy and still remain a major industrial and military power? McDonald's now employs more workers than U.S. Steel. Can such trends continue? Business leaders in the older sectors of the economy insist that they cannot. Says John Nevin, chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber: "It's utter nonsense that we are going to become a high-tech and a service economy. The high-tech companies have more manufacturing offshore than here. The idea that we can have an economy by selling hamburgers to each other is absurd...
...thought of "Light and Dark Imagery" manages to be both terribly simple and terribly scattered. The paragraphing, which appears to have been done by a food professor rather than a word professor, is a symptom of the utter absence of any organizing ideas beyond the examples themselves: Presentation here sadly mirrors preconception, both of them so careless as to be virtually absent. This might slip by with a D-, if the "author" has had bad lighting and good luck working...