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...himself, and in Inversions, he has created an entire book of words written in a fashion that visualizes their meanings--"calligraphic cartwheels," he calls them. "MIRROR" has left-to-right symmetry; so does "DYSLEXIA."" upside down" reads the same when rotated 180 degrees. The letters of "EGG" fit together to form an oval. "SYMMETRY" has rotational symmetry. (On the same page, neatly enough, "ASYMMETRY" has none...
...merely adds to the pace of a dishwasher's job. The plates still must be scraped, and the pots and pans scoured between cycles. The mechanical dishwasher never gets forks and spoons clean anyway, leaving at least an invisible film of grease, if not a yellow plastic film of egg yolk, in the trenches between prongs of the forks. The dishwasher makes you run, stooping to grab the buckets from under counters, and testing eye-hand coordination. Reaching with the left hand for not-quite-clean plates; right for dirty, so the left can pick up the stainless stell...
Personal savings are no longer considered a secure nest egg. Inflation has wiped out much of the purchasing power of money in the bank, and most people cannot afford to save enough during their working lives to provide for their...
...President called it at one point possible "bureaucratic sabotage." Chief Budget Cutter David Stockman conceded that Administration officials were left "with egg on their face." Both men were referring to proposed new regulations, announced by the Agriculture Department, for school lunch programs that would have classified catsup as a vegetable. The resulting furor forced the Administration into a hasty and embarrassing announcement that the rules were being recalled for redrafting. Even so, they remain in many minds a symbol of what critics see as the Reagan team's callous indifference to the poor...
Minutes later, however, the manager found them stuffed behind a stack of egg cartons...