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...attempt by Rizzo to maneuver around the Philadelphia mayoralty's two-term restriction, A.D.A. is trying yet another weapon: The Sayings of Chairman Frank, a 100-page compendium of Rizzoisms published last week that is intended to make municipal voters laugh and the city's mayor weep. A sampler...
...house with a heart painted on it might be taken from Fellini's memory. And Germano's trees in Brooklyn, shading clay or plastic Madonnas, remind me of a Brooklyn "miracle" I once heard of... A statuette of the Madonna, enshrined in the hollow of a tree, began to weep. Though it was scientifically determined her tears were only sap, believers continued to trek to the dusty backyard to worship...
...stories (most of which originally appeared in the New Yorker) can fly on its own. Taken together, they form both a whimsical saga of invisible dynasties and an extended commentary on Homo sapiens. Warner's elves are in many ways mirror images of men. They cannot weep and do not hate. They reproduce with difficulty but live for centuries: "Fairies are constructed for longevity, not fertility." They are governed exclusively by women-the more capricious the better...
Buildings are mostly heated by a central supply system that feeds them steam through underground lines. The main fuel in Russia is-weep, amerikantsy-natural gas, piped from Soviet Central Asia and Siberia. (The Soviet Union has one-fourth of the world's natural-gas reserves, but has instituted a widespread fuel-conservation program nonetheless.) Because natural gas is the cleanest-burning fuel of all, there is no air pollution...
Maxine does not weep easily. Her soft auburn curls and sparkling blue eyes mask the mind of a prosecutor. She grew up in bloody Harlan County, Ky., the daughter of a union lawyer twice marked for assassination. Maxine's mother shot three men she thought were after him. One afternoon Maxine walked into her home-town Harlan Enterprise and, as she recalls, "told them I knew everything that went on in the county, and they ought to hire me." They did not. She was five years...