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...Mace), cyclist's crash helmet (from billy clubs, bricks, etc.), flak jacket (from snipers), Vaseline (from Mace), Mace (from rioters), washcloth (from tear gas), bug bomb (to kill the flies that infest the amphitheatre from nearby stockyard dunghills), folding bicycle (there is a cab strike), roller skates (carpet tacks scattered on the streets by the demonstrators may decommission the bike), wire cutters (in case delegate is trapped inside the amphitheatre, or outside because of pickpocketed credentials), all-purpose bail-bond credit card (if arrested), air mattress (in event of prolonged incarceration or inability to return to hotel because...
...herself on stage and screen, has started up that long comeback trail. Billing herself the "world's only lady gator wrestler," she sees no ordinary run-of-the-reptile return. She wants to gild her scaly and do guest shots on TV shows "walking on a red carpet after they show my old films." See you later, alligator...
...Does it matter?" he answered slyly, reminding me of the way Bobby Kennedy used to handle the carpet-bagger question in his New York Senate race...
...outdated U.S. Government stamps with stamps of his own design.) They can strum the weird musical instruments of Francois and Bernard Baschet, but the atonal sounds evoked are far less controllable than those of the lowliest guitar. They can walk on Piero Gilardi's soft polyurethane carpet and be amazed when they do, for it is sculpted to look exactly like a bed of stones. Or they can tie themselves up in knots with Robert Israel's 35-foot-long Dacron and vinyl python titled Progress...
...have the pick of my brother's harem." Lucille Ball to Raymond Burr in The Magic Carpet...