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...planned this to torment me,'" a homosexual masseur protests. "He stood on the deck, holding a plastic lemon at elaborate arm's length. 'You couldn't possibly buy artificial lemon juice, someone left it here, it's a bad joke...
...represent has been virtually laid to rest. Composers have changed, and conductors need new training, and new attitudes, to meet the requirements of the new music. It is hard to say where music is going, but easy to see that it is at a crossroads. Music is now a plastic art, and musicians also must be plastic. Conducting has come far from the day when the first conductor beat time with a large wooden staff. Each of the conductors we have recently lost added something to the art, contributed something to its future. None of them, however, could predict where...
...major problem will be plastic surgery to overcome war wounds induced by anti-personnel bombs and napalm. Apparently a vast quantity of anti-personnel weapons have been used, mainly pellet bombs, and the disfiguration will be difficult to take care of. For this they may ask for some outside help...
...kitchen exhaust fans. On U.S. 66 in Illinois, the truck stops have names like Tiny's, the 66 Terminal Café, El Roy's, the Mill, the Fleetwood. They are the sort of place that serves Ann Page cherry pie with Sealtest ice cream heaped on plastic plates. With the pork chops or cube steak or fried chicken come piles of mashed potatoes and canned creamed corn or cut green beans. The Dixie puts out a fried-chicken dinner "with that come-back taste"; it also boasts a barbershop and two gift shops that sell 3-D tableaux...
...from feed lots to burial pits or storage bins is expensive and difficult. Burning it only increases air pollution and drying it takes up too much space. A more promising approach is to reduce each animal's excretion. Farmland Industries of Kansas City, Mo., has developed grain-sized plastic tabs that, once eaten by a cow, lodge in one of its stomachs, the rumen. There they take the place of roughage, reducing the animal's need for hay. Such cattle subsequently produce up to 40% less manure than those fed conventionally. Another scheme calls for injecting manure with...