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...fastest-growing arts in the U.S. is interior decoration. Before World War II, it was mostly the rich who employed decorators to do their homes, and most American women would no more ask a stranger to tell them how to fix the living room than they would ask for outside advice on how to keep a husband happy. But in the last decade, the U.S. has become home-conscious as never before.*Decorators report that more and more of their clients are middle-income families, switching to modern homes or trying to spruce up traditional homes with new styles. Last...
...This fact is not surprising. A century of history records the changes in institutions: it does not fix their mold. And this was a century of shattering change . . . Over such a span of time, the only perfectly consistent institution was a dead institution. And the Republican Party was-and is-very much alive ... It helped mold each age and was itself molded by each age-the extremist party in one day, 'the champion of something called 'normalcy' in another...
When Sergeant Kenneth Hemric got back to Yadkinville, N.C. (pop. 760), after 32 months as a prisoner of war in Korea, his mother asked about his future. "Whatever I do," he replied, "I'm going to fix it so you won't have to worry...
...testing the 30-odd ingredients of a perfume such as Chanel No. 5, not all the smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while...
...would like a long vacation Your reservation I'll quickly fix-You'll simply love my old plantation Way down upon the River Styx...