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...three-the pre-Christian, the Christian, and what may reasonably be called the post-Christian . . . It appears to me that the second change is even more radical than the first. Christians and Pagans had much more in common with each other than either has with a post-Christian. The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as that between those who worship and those who do not . . . Surely Seneca and Dr. Johnson are closer together than Burton and Freud...
...blondes and brunettes who obligingly allow him to stab and dismember them, or occasionally to lock them in coflins. The most eager of his helpers lies on a table where, in full view, a buzz saw runs through her midsection. After smiling at the two segments, he covers the gap with a cloth, and then smiles as the girl walks off the stage in one piece. His other tricks include dancing handkerchiefs, floating lightbulbs, and the appearance of an assistant in a glass box built on stage...
...even though the danger that any large number of New Yorkers would take to worshiping the statue was, admittedly, minimal. As a result of diplomatic iconoclasm, the Newark stonecutter who repaired the statues was asked to take Mohammed quietly away. The other statues were closed up to conceal the gap, and now Zoroaster has Mohammed's old place on the southwest corner, facing toward Staten Island...
...patent rights on everything from cowboy hats to rubber falsies, at a time when Japanese businessmen would pay any price to get back into world markets. But the fact is that U.S. industrial tie-ups pulled Japan out of the rubble, filled a ten-year research gap and boosted the nation's export potential...
Publisher Newhouse expects to increase the editorial budget, give his editors a free rein to expand and improve the news coverage, and thus hopes to close the circulation gap on the Post-Dispatch. For Newhouse, the independence of his local editors is the keystone of his publishing theory. He has no use for chain operations that make papers look alike or speak with a common editorial voice. Says he: "Nobody knows better what to print in a local paper than the editors on the spot. The ideal chain is one in which there is no chaining whatsoever...