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...pot. There is just too much blubber...
...14th century melodies orchestrated by Composer Claude Arrieu, Comedy combined humor, poetry, drama and sex in lurid mixture. Some of the sequences were unabashedly bawdy: an aged fool heaves over a medieval chamber pot, is lured into bed by a seductive young thing who promptly decamps with the old man's clothes and money. Some were queasily off-color: a visiting sultan caresses a "lovely young boy" only to discover a female under the fabric. One of the most famous of the tales had to do with the scholar who revenged himself on the lady who deceived...
...charged that the "astronomical" cost of meeting the union's demands would be at least $500 million over the next two years, warned its employees not to look for a "pot of gold" in the fall. Replied Jim Carey: "A fair and efficient management could provide every benefit sought by the union for less than one-half the cost as estimated by General Electric...
...count. As a city's population drops, so does its share of the state and federal tax revenue. San Francisco stands to lose up to $2,000,000 in tax kickbacks because other California cities have grown so fast that they will get bigger portions from the tax pot. New York City figures to lose $1,350,000 in state tax income because it slipped by 242,000 to 7,650,000. Sign of the times: most of what New York loses will go to suburban Nassau and Suffolk counties, whose combined count has more than doubled...
...Unlike Taylor Caldwell, for instance, who writes the same sort of novel with more earnestness and less skill, he stops every few chapters and snickers at himself with a pun or a Dos Passosian aside. And if the reader celebrates each such instance by pouring himself three fingers of pot still whisky, he will reach page 621 handily...