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...left to 13-year-old David Cathro, flapping wings made of bamboo and plastic, to make the best flight of the day: he hit the water all of 20 feet from the launch pad. "I talked my mum into letting me have a go," he confessed, "because I hold a bronze medal for swimming...
...quick flashes. In art, anger is regularly mistaken for sincerity, if not inspiration. One is advised to peddle one's cool art with a hot sell. A masochistic public quivers deliciously not only before the real fire of the Genets, the Becketts and the Mailers but before the plastic brimstone of their less gifted imitators. All too often the angry mediocrity gets away with bullying his audience, like Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, that pilot project for the personality...
...Outside handles would be removed from all doors save the main one, to deter students who had been suspended or expelled from coming back in and roaming the halls. Every student would have an ID card. Since fights often break out in cafeterias, the panel suggested that schools substitute plastic garbage bags for the metal cans that are now turned into missiles...
...border, some have taken over schools to sleep in; others stay with villagers or sleep out in the fields and under the trees. Most are shepherded into refugee camps where they are given ration cards for food and housed in makeshift sheds of bamboo covered with thatched or plastic roofing. Though no one is actually starving in the camps, food is in short supply, particularly powdered milk and baby food...
...been a long and arduous journey; now the rewards are at hand. The nuclear family is about to start a week of nuclear camping. The camp includes: a swimming pool, a laundromat, a supermarket, a billiard academy, a miniature golf course, and fence-to-fence asphalt and plastic grass...