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Their green stems were waving, gently; and their cheerful bubbles of sweet bright colors danced around. Then suddenly they were all uprooted. She wanted to scream. They were uprooted, and sterilized, and embalmed in plastic. Hard in their loveliness; ruthless dancers swirling around...
...proclamation of barren death. Never before had she felt less weighty. Her body was small, had always been small, but usually clumsy and uncomfortably present on her bones. Now she felt fluid, fading into the dying sunlight. She stared at her extremities. Her toes and fingers were slender stalks. Plastic and uprooted like her flowers. Fading thinly into invisibility. Her eyes traveled up her body. Her sturdy thighs, her entire stumpy self was a slender green stem, fading...
...Army envisions three-story townhouse-style buildings with a campus dormitory atmosphere. Each floor will have a central living room surrounded by four apartments. Set up to accommodate three soldiers, each suite consists of a bedroom, bathroom and lounge area. The carpeted, air-conditioned townhouses, furnished in motel-modern plastic and veneer, will be nestled together with landscaped courtyards and lawns as well as training areas...
...engaging villain, sympathetic in his evil, is at least as old as Milton's Satan. But Victor Canning, a master craftsman of English thrillers, has managed to conjure up a variation. He is Edward Shoebridge, a saturnine hunter, a falconer who feels pollution and plastic closing in and coldly uses crime to raise the money to escape to some rustic Scandinavian fortress. His business is kidnaping high political figures in impeccable style. He takes his ransom in uncut diamonds...
...door, which is located in the main entry to the House, is controlled by an electronic system and is opened with a plastic card instead...