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...learned that we weren't allowed to pass resolutions at the conference. So on its final day, June 30, as dignitaries yammered at the podium, I joined other furious women at the two front lunch tables, passing along notes written on napkins. We were putting together the National Organization for Women under the noses of the people who wanted to put us off. I wrote on one napkin that NOW had "to take the actions needed to bring women into the mainstream of American society, now ... in fully equal partnership with men." As people rushed to catch planes, the founding...
...Quincy, you throw out your own napkin and toss your own silverware into a bucket o’ water to soak...
...squawking ducks bound for market, the green-tiled temples rising in the distance and the men blowing spheroids of snot straight onto the street one nostril at a time. "I thought, s---, I'm going to get stuck in this bloody ghost town forever," he says, hands tearing a napkin to shreds in his lap. "At that moment I thought: I have to get out of here...
...freed from the shackles of keyboards. And now that computers are getting better at recognizing handwriting - the Newton was laughably inept in that regard - PC manufacturers are once again trying to sell us machines that work almost as well as a Bic and the back of a napkin...
...same time. FM is reduced to balancing the bowl on FM’s knees and taking spoonfuls while working. With its squishy noises, Jell-O is also a deafeningly loud snack, especially in a quiet Science Center classroom, and so messy enough to use up an entire napkin provision...