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...from sticks, chicken wire and mud by the California artist Deborah Butterfield. There is also a hilarious piece of funkiness by a Texas sculptor, James Surls, representing a tornado chewing through the roof of a church; Surls' debt to that master of buckeye surrealism, H.C. Westermann, is ob vious enough, but the image has a wobbly comic-strip blatancy about it that carries conviction...
...hospital where they charged $4 a weak purr." Heywood Broun, drinking a bootleg liquor, sighed, "Any port in a storm." "The groans that greet such puns," claims Milton Berle (who once joked that he had cut off his nose to spite his race), "are usually en vious. The other person wishes he had said...
...long, short and average sleepers all spend about the same amount of time in what research ers call "slow-wave sleep," the deep and relatively dreamless state, totaling some 75 minutes a night, when people are presumed to get their real recu peration from the activities of the pre vious day. Additionally, Hartmann concluded that long sleepers spent nearly twice as much of the night as others in REM (rapid eye movement) sleep - a state in which the sleeper's brain is as active as in full consciousness...
Cried the Beirut Daily Star, with ob vious enthusiasm: "A new culture has invaded the Biblical land of Lebanon ... the Pepsi-Cola culture." The culture poured out of a spanking new limestone and glass bottling plant on the outskirts of Beirut at the rate of 4,000 cases a day, and was lapped up so fast that delivery trucks were mobbed by eager buyers even before they could reach stores. Lebanon's Twefik Suleman Assaf, who had spent $650,000 on the new plant, happily esti mated that he would get his investment back in 18 months...
Prolific Mother. At 50, with no pre vious experience, she began to pour out volume after volume of remunerative fiction and travelogue. Most of the characters she introduced were old friends and acquaintances: "Of course," she said airily, "I always pulp (them) before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage." This was no consolation to the American public, which foamed at the sprightly invective and caricature in Mrs. Trollope's first book, Domestic Man ners of the Americans. The book was a financial success, but not sufficiently so to relieve the author...