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...staff cafeteria is immaculate, lit with fluorescence and perked up by leaf-green supergraphics. Four dwarfs and a brown nylon-shag bear stand at the counter, ordering chipped beef. Their human faces, pinheads emerging from their neck-holes, look tiny, naked and grumpy. Across a wide cinder-block corridor whose ceiling is wreathed like a battleship's with gas pipes and power mains, more ducks and mice are disappearing into the mask room. REMOVE YOUR HEAD AND PLACE ON TABLE AFTER ENTERING, a notice Commands; the racks are full of familiar visages, the icons of one's childhood...
Hank Greenspan is a research assistant at the Graduate School of Education and a freelance writer. the facts from the Highest-up. I refer, of course, to what has become known as the "Fig Leaf" episode. Would you please tell us what you know of that...
...That's playing with history," objected State Cultural Properties Review Committee Chairman Albert Schroeder. "It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," said State Historian Myra Ellen Jenkins. As the controversy wore on, one Santa Fe wag suggested placing a fig leaf over the word savage. Someone else proposed a second obelisk dedicated to "the gallant Indians who died fighting for their homeland...
Side two is pretty ethereal. "Green" may be a song sung by a leaf, who's sure? but it's definitely about nature. Morrison's first non-original since the old Bert Berns days over at Bang Records, the song's basically whimsical nature is belied by a funky, uptempo arrangement right out of Sinatra doing "That's Life." It's the good old uptempo blues: sax solos, blues guitar phrases abound. Morrison torch sings it, bending notes, phrases, whole lines, and finishing with a properly respectful...
...office," and announces his intention of going abroad. Spiro Agnew thus becomes Acting President. Long known as a preacher of puritanism. Agnew starts a major campaign against pornography and prostitution, but eventually is himself drawn into criminal conduct. Nixon meanwhile, instead of skipping the country, takes a leaf from G. Gordon Liddy, dons a disguise, and travels around hither and yon, eavesdropping and generally keeping the citizenry under secret surveillance. When things reach an impasse. Nixon whips off his wig and moustache, reveals himself to the nation, and, issuing a few executive decrees, smilingly sets things aright, though dark clouds...