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WONDERS, INC., by Crawford Kilian, illustrated by John Larrecq (Parnassus; $4.25), is a whimsical story about a marvelous factory that makes lines (skylines, hairlines, sidelines), mistakes (from colossal blunders to tiny errors), time (part-time, pastime, split seconds, fleeting moments) and space (from outer to closet...
...alarm clock with him when he left. He also let me know he intended to stay in his room as long as he legally could (from 8 a.m. to midnight). He did, and I was forced to tiptoe around him while he studied and to get dressed in the closet. I didn't spend much time in my room...
...suburban Los Angeles, "has really frightened me. There's this tremendous emphasis on materialism. And of course the violence." Mrs. Jan Rogers of Tallahassee, a mother of two young children, feels the same way. Eighteen months ago, she "just unplugged the damn thing and put it into the closet." She is particularly happy, she says, to be free of the bombardment of all those commercials...
...particular occasion really go together. Designer Sant'Angelo goes Chessie one better by inviting girls over to his apartment for dressing-for-the-party parties. The girls swap clothes freely, creating costumes for each other and parading around like little children turned loose in a grownup's closet. Sometimes, the designer admits sheepishly, they get so carried away with dressing that they never make the party...
...Black in Biafra, so weary of being sounded in the subways by black eyes, so despairing of the smell of booze and pot and used-up hope in bloodshot eyes of Negroes bombed at noon, that he must have become in some secret part of his flesh a closet Republican-how else account for his inner 'Yeah man, yeah, go' when fat and flatulent old Republicans got up in Convention Hall to deliver platitudes on the need to return to individual human effort?" Mailer's only second thought was a postscript remark that he "would probably...