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...suggest that he would lead a new order much different from the old. Located in Madrid's most elegant suburb, his rambling, fieldstone mansion, Quinta 17 de Octubre (from the date of his accession to power in Argentina), is tastefully furnished in Spanish style, surrounded by broad lawns, thick shrubbery and 12-ft.-high burglarproof fences. General Franco's El Pardo Palace and Prince Juan Carlos' Zarzuela Palace are not far away. Perón is reported to be a millionaire, with large sums stashed away in numbered Swiss bank accounts. His principal "business" in Madrid...
...puckery, like a cup of strong tea), or "balanced" (with just the right combination of acid, tannin and alcohol). They can be "big" (with a detectable heaviness on the tongue, not light or watery), "clean" (absent of extraneous tastes like cork or oak), "flinty" (dry and sharp), "full-bodied" (thick, robust), and "maderise" (from Madeira; turned slightly brown with age, past the prime). They can be "petillant" (slightly sparkling or effervescent), "thin" (deficient in alcohol or body, watery), or "woody" (with an overbearing taste of oak from overlong storage in the cask...
...battle scenes as if he were presiding at the Grand Ball and some unfortunate occurence--Lord Whatdyecallit fainting or something--had made him all excited running around calling for a doctor. The daintily etched grease smears on his time-cut alabaster face seem a trifle ludicrous even in the thick of battle...
...they heard in traveling sideshows. But Mencken's theory is generous in comparison with the racist assertions of some of his white colleagues. One school of thought holds, for example, that blacks only speak Black English in front of whites to confuse them, while another theory explains that the thick lips of Afro-Americans prevent them from speaking Standard English. These theories have had a tremendous impact in education, causing black children to be condemned as inarticulate people with "language disabilities" and "low cognitive skills...
Here we are in the all too near future, when pollution is so thick that skywriters engrave their words with hammer and chisel. Population is so dense that the authorities sponsor a killathon, in which patriotic citizens dispatch themselves in diverse ways. The last California redwood has been replaced by a plastic memorial. Prize dogs compete not for ribbons, but for virgin asphalt on which to relieve themselves...