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Amiable Conceit. Not many years ago, most chickens sold in markets were either worn-out hens, roosters, or scrawny cockerels. Now most market chickens are grown only for eating, the result of a genetics race between supermarkets and specialty stores to provide the best eating bird. The meat-type chicken is never referred to by the industry simply as a chicken. It is too much of an all-purpose bird. With its plump breast and slim shanks, at less than a pound, it can be sold as a squab. At a pound it is widely sold as a Rock Cornish...
...journalistic form, the movie review has descended to the level of the pressagent's blurb-a blurb commonly reprinted by newspapers too idle or strapped to staff a reviewer. A few perceptive, readable critics are still at critical work. But many papers leave the job to worn-out deskmen, middle-aged ladies (the New York Daily News has three) or unqualified cubs, or else, like the Des Moines Tribune, spread it through the city room, at $3 a review...
There is always a man on duty at the Cambridge City Dump. A small, aging man in glasses and a thin black sweater looks away over the mile of bromo, beer, and molasses bottles; ripped mattresses, spilling their insides; worn-out bras; punctured car tires, cans, cartons, containers, crates rusted, flattened, discarded, dumped...
When young Aaron started the ball rolling the next day in the finals, he looked like a winner. He was two up after eleven holes. Coe confessed to being "mentally fatigued" and looked worn-out physically. But Charlie Coe has the stuff of a champ. Doggedly he put his swing back in joint, and poured on the pressure. By the 26th hole, the Georgia kid was three-putting greens, wallowing in sand-traps, ricocheting off trees. Coe eased his aching bones home to win, 5 and 4, by dropping a 25-ft. putt on the 32nd green...
After that, Herb went on, Enright told him to get a "whitewall" marine-style haircut, and selected a worn-out suit and tie for him to complete the picture of the penniless G.I. He coached him in grimace and gesture, taught him how to "think" violently in the TV isolation booth ("I call it the Dan Enright school of acting"). All his questions, said Herb, were fed to him in advance by Enright...