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Score yourself an expert candidate-watcher if you identified the lint-ball roller as Muskie, the engine expert as Wallace, the sometimes trying spouse as Humphrey, the elephant memory as Nixon's and the spick-and-span man as Spiro Agnew...
Ravaging the Retinas. Perhaps the frugging, neon-lit, chromium-plated, plastic, pastel peregrinations of the times demanded a breathless roller-coaster rush of words to re-create the "shockkkkkk" of the real-life experience. But too often, Wolfe, dressed for the role in orange or off-white suits, merely seemed like an action-painter-writer recklessly ravaging the retinas with pastel word-blobs. Was he freaking out at the reader's expense? Was he in fact a social critic using a comic-strip writer's approach or a flack for pop cultists? A high priest of the gadgetry...
...tear gas and Mace), cyclist's crash helmet (from billy clubs, bricks, etc.), flak jacket (from snipers), Vaseline (from Mace), Mace (from rioters), washcloth (from tear gas), bug bomb (to kill the flies that infest the amphitheatre from nearby stockyard dunghills), folding bicycle (there is a cab strike), roller skates (carpet tacks scattered on the streets by the demonstrators may decommission the bike), wire cutters (in case delegate is trapped inside the amphitheatre, or outside because of pickpocketed credentials), all-purpose bail-bond credit card (if arrested), air mattress (in event of prolonged incarceration or inability to return...
...punctured. Lockheed recently negotiated a $3,000,000 contract with the Pentagon for the production of test vehicles. Though their design is military, Twisters might eventually be used by construction men, explorers, or any other civilians who have the urge and the money for a remarkable ride across roller-coaster terrain...
...cook?a pastime she enjoys and is good at?and occasionally likes to get away for some fishing. But most of her socializing is confined to the small circle of girlhood friends with whom, until a couple of years ago, she spent Wednesday nights skating at the Arcadia Roller Rink...