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...Their quality of life has been permanently changed, and it was done with their money! True justice would be served if Seaboard president Harry Bresky had to live in the home of Julia Howell, who has been forced to seal the windows and seldom ventures outdoors without a face mask because of the ever present stench from her "neighbors"--Seaboard's 40,000 hogs. PAT RITACCO Nutley...
...artifacts that were tied into it, ceremonial dress, and brush painting linked to the imported cult of Zen Buddhism. Some of the most memorable samurai objects in this show could not have had much military use; they are kawari kabuto, spectacular parade helmets--the ancestors of Darth Vader's mask--worn to impress the living daylights out of commoners. The variety of shapes the helmets came in was mind-boggling. Some of them referred to family crests, but many seem to be sheer fantasy in the form of carps' tails, clamshells, whirlpools, morning glories, fans, bats' ears or crabs...
Decked out in a black hood and ghostly rubber mask, Henry C. Quillen '00 wants to be the voice of the people. More accurately, he wants to scream for them...
...writing seems to progress through the pages from the wonderfully simple satire of "The Hitman" to the long, more tragic "Mexico." "The Hitman" is composed of short clipped statements concerning key points in the hitman's life. Continuing with his theme of incongruity, the hitman has donned a black mask since childhood and "wastes" his parents. Nevertheless, when the hitman marries and has a child, Boyle makes a statement about the cyclical nature of life and death for the most grim of professions. Also representative of many of the stories found in the volume, "Mexico" is a story Boyle presents...
...50th anniversary here this year," she says. "But, you know, when the hog fumes come rolling in, you can't plan on anything. I haven't had people in for dinner [for two years] because I'd probably have to meet them out on the driveway with a mask for them to get to the house...