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...poems of William Ferguson's don't do total justice to the man, but give an enticing taste of what will follow in the next issue, when BR will reprint a mass of his work. Ferguson combines a plastic imagination with an infallible ear; these poems show him condensed into a dense, luminous symbolic vocabulary -- a set of difficult hieroglyphs. After all, it takes more than devotion to know that "an ivory place, where needles thick as mirrors drank to excess" represents a hospital, or that "a foot with a thousand hands" is a pine-tree. His choice of quiet...
...Tickets. So local politics still involve the old-fashioned combination of shoe leather and vote-catching gimmicks. One Chicago hopeful tours bowling alleys distributing plastic earrings bearing his name to the ladies. In California, a congressional candidate has his volunteer aides play a short tape recording of his pitch from door to door. To raise funds, Connecticut Republicans are auctioning baseballs autographed by Babe Ruth. Wisconsin Republicans sell cookbooks at $2.50 each. A California Congressman gave away a $5,000 Cadillac as a door prize to attract potential contributors. Most thoughtful of all was the Michigan candidate who netted...
...embraces from prehistoric rock painting to Picasso. But there was no such thing inside the gallery. There was a movie of a nude woman, but she was taking a shower in black goo. Elsewhere there was a single bosom blown up to pop proportions, enlarged male genitals looming from plastic strips, and an assemblage, Green Table and Chairs, which showed two chairs, each with a single aperture, connected under the table by a garden hose...
...good as sold. What he buys is oblivion. Soon he is propped up in bed reading his own obituary. Having purchased a $30,000 first-class death (hotel fire) with a stand-in corpse from the organization's Cadaver Procurement Section, he has undergone plastic surgery and a light brainwash. When the medics start pulling the bandages off, the former middle-aged banker stares into a mirror. Who can it be, under those stitches and scar tissue? Would you believe Rock Hudson...
...intravenous process would make anesthesia safer and easier to give. It would also substantially reduce the cost of anesthesia by replacing a $500 machine with a $5 plastic coil...