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...Lampoon's stories are at best nondescript. They are all carefully and elaborately built around a single, and not particularly amusing, gimmick. They contain too few bits of inspired phrasing or deft writing, and they die slowly of their own weight. On the brighter side of the 'Poon's prose efforts are Satires on the Boston newspapers and the Saturday Evening Post. They are short and lightly written...
...Monte Carlo's world-famed Oceanographic Institute, Bombard concluded that limited quantities of sea water (not more than a quart a day) plus fluids pressed from raw fish can supply the body's need for water without harm to the system. He also concluded that fish contain all the nutrients necessary to health except vitamin C, which can be obtained from plankton. Bombard saw no reason why a man equipped with fishing tackle and fine-mesh nets for gathering plankton could not obtain from the sea enough food and water to stay alive-and even healthy -for weeks...
...taken from the factory, when analysed by the ministry, proved to be harmless. But the Brittany doctors had spread the word about Baumol far & wide. A village retailer, afraid to sell any more of the stuff, returned a shipment to the manufacturers. A sample was analysed and found to contain a deadly poison, arsenic acid anhydride...
That importance is by now indisputable, but there were many disputes along the way. And it is the quality, not the quantity, of his poems that has won T. S. Eliot his reputation: at 64, his published poems number hardly threescore. These riches-in-little-room contain the comment of one highly civilized brain and a poetic talent as deep, constricted and penetrating as an oil well, on the human condition in today's world. These 61 poems and three verse plays are now for the first time published in one volume in The Complete Poems and Plays...
...cabbage is the source of the first hangover cure that Clayton and Langdon actually recommend: sauerkraut juice. "Every icebox," they say, "should have this Universal." They also recommend "the Spirit of '76" (spirits of ammonia), and an international array of pick-me-ups. These usually contain at least one hair of the dog in the form of Pernod, curacao, cognac, absinthe, Fernet Branca, or just plain white wine...