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...Peace changes his life--and shifts the movie into a mixed mode of comedy, musical and social satire. Inspired by his heavy readings--Nietzsche, Camus, and the like--Umstetter pens a prison drama called "Weeds" and directs it in San Quentin. Weeds, the movie, is the tale of Umstetter's exploits once he's been paroled through a campaign initiated by an impressed San Francisco drama critic. Umstetter and his fellow ex-convict thespians take their show on the road...
...state of aggravation. Wiping away tears of laughter from their eyes--or sockets, as the case may be--they left to take turns guarding the copy machines. They had to make sure that no mischievous students were wasting valuable fluid by making too many copies in "dark" mode...
...Move Fast, or even How to Make It Big as a Consultant. At the airport newsstand a magazine cover line catches the eye: MANAGEMENT SECRETS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Now there was a role model for the ages, a boss who could communicate in the "I win, you lose" mode and get away with it. A guy who conquered Iran, no less...
Given such merits, the bicycle ought to be universally embraced by humankind as a sensible way of getting about in the strangling, traffic- plagued city. Bicycles have long been a major mode of transport in Europe and Asia; there are as many as 230 million of them in China. Now they have taken to U.S. streets with a vengeance. According to Bill Wilkinson, director of the Bicycle Federation of America, roughly 2 million people commute to work on bikes, up from approximately 500,000 a decade...
Well, there is help. Just make a quick phone call, and a compact van, stocked with thousands of solutions, will arrive at your door. A driver- decorator (98% are women) will survey the immediate problems and analyze whether your inclinations are in the formal, casual, transitional or luxurious mode. Then, presto! Out from the van can come decks of fabric swatches, wheels of paint chips, pages of wall coverings, rows of baked tiles, furniture catalogs -- even lamps and statuary. For customers who like things fancy, there are silk screens, antique engravings, custom-framed landscapes and Old Master reproductions -- a Degas...