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...functions. Saul no longer enters a cave "to cover his feet," but "to relieve himself." To ensure that their camps would be fit for God's presence, Israelites are instructed to carry a trowel with them; "When you squat outside" the camp, orders Deuteronomy 23: 13, "you shall scrape a hole . . . and cover your excrement." Husbands and wives no longer "know" each other, but "have intercourse." The man struck down by untimely death in Job no longer has "breasts full of milk," but "loins full of vigor." ("What he was full of was clearly semen," says Sir Godfrey...
...Band-just another string and percussion group with the usual funny hats, wearing quite uncomfortably the somber scrape of civilization's salvation. What they need is a couple of horns-some professional cats who can speak with a horn a language we all can understand...
...Hurling great Clumps of slimy Muck before them and behind them and to their Left and to their Right they gashed beyond all immediate Repair the once neatly trimmed Lawn and closed withunimaginable Petulance and noisy Spite on the front Steps in a Braying Horde! Victory seemed but a Scrape away...
...Coop is having a major January sale. Coop Manager Alexander Zavelle says December sales were up 10 per cent over 1968; but they have nonetheless managed to scrape up a few items to sell to you now. Among the bargains: a Denny McLain Electric Baseball Game, 20 per cent off: Christmas records, $1.98 or 5 for $9; used paperbacks, 50 per cent off (James Bond in Thunderball for 30 cents); a poster of Paul Newman in a T-shirt for a dollar or Steve McQueen in a sport coat for 50 cents; suits and sport coats (without Steve McQueen...
Some unspecified wrinkles about working conditions remain to be smoothed out. Flashes of temperamental lightning could still postpone or even wreck the whole proceeding. Nonetheless, both management and the artists have started trying to scrape together a new Met season, and it could get under way either...