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...annoyance. "It used to hurt, never winning an award, but I've never been the pet of intellectuals," he said. His small Pennsylvania towns, like Gibbsville of Appointment in Samarra and Ten North Frederick, were microcosms of American society, observed with scrupulous attention to detail-down to the width of the lapel on a man's suit. Gibbsville, in fact, closely resembles Pottsville, his old home town...
...went into one old woman's apartment that had an inch-wide crack running the width of the ceiling. I tried to tell her that with rent control, she could force the landlord to abide by the housing code. She could make him fix the crack...
...oversized one-man tub. "I'm short and fat," explains Bonsack, "and I wanted a raised step on one end for soaping, and then to be able to turn around and stretch out from the other end for soaking. But then, I thought, the four-foot width was just right; wouldn't it be fun if two people used it together?" Yes, indeed, agreed the several hundred customers who have already taken the Sagittarius home. They had no difficulty matching the decor of their bathrooms; the tubs come in a choice of 2,000 different colors or laminated...
This entire situation, more than any other academic issue of recent times, reveals the increasing width of the generation gaps in academia. If the chasm between senior and junior faculty is astounding, then the one between faculty and students must be hopelessly unbridgeable...
Moreover, the skins have been newly shaped. Although some elegantly fitted furs have always been available for years, most designs were amorphous clumps, minimally styled and varying only in depth of cuff and the width of hem. The new models are cut with an eye toward lean grace and contemporary flair. Now, there are gently fitted capes and coats, designed with spare straight sleeves and narrow shoulders and waists that do not swaddle the figure but merely graze it. Now, in fact, there is fur that does the work of cloth...