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...federal arbitration, though the union was not happy about its prospects. Appalachians are a stubborn breed. The strikers perversely seem to enjoy getting tossed into the slammer. Speaking for many last week, Norma Salyer, a miner's wife from Dante, boasted, "I'm ready. I've got my lipstick and my chewing gum right here to take with me to jail...
...program, sanctioned by authorities in 26 states, works like this: when shoplifters are caught, the store manager may or may not have them arrested, depending on whether they seem like professional criminals or occasional lipstick lifters. In the latter case, the store lets them go after verifying their names and addresses. In about a week the shoplifters receive letters demanding payment. If they refuse, Eckerd takes the case to small-claims court. Most have been paying...
...with schoolteachers dressed in white blouses. A few middle-class retiree couples from Wisconsin and Iowa staying at a nearby recreational-vehicle park danced cheek to cheek when there was a slow number. Then there were Mexicans in wide- brim hats and shy girls with dark eyes and red lipstick. John Klingemann, the Brewster County deputy sheriff, leaned quietly, arms folded, against a parked pickup truck in the street near the frolicking dancers. "Reckon a third of the folks here are from across the river," he offered. "They'll all go home again afterwards...
...always a world so rich and rigid that it was ripe for satire. In 1954 Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book burlesqued the Disney cartoon world, with its talking animals wearing three-fingered gloves, its ducks in sailor suits but no pants, and a mouse named Minnie "with lipstick and eyelashes and a dress with high-heeled shoes; a mouse, ten times bigger than the biggest rat." This was mild stuff compared with a 1967 parody that Mad Alumnus Wallace Wood drew for Realist magazine. In the cheerfully scabrous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy," Walt's creatures behaved exactly as barnyard...
...ritual is performed at the wedding altar when Heather marries a man who turns out to be a homosexual. Rachel notices him wearing lipstick and eyeshadow in a local wine bar, and the reader is left to wonder how bovine the bride must be to have been led into this situation. The union lasts longer than one might expect, though once free, Heather heads off to Venice, where she promptly becomes a novelistic cliche: the Englishwoman who falls in love with an Italian...