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...language. When they do, ungrammatical sign makers will doubtless be hard at work. As they did in 1977, chain stores will offer "bargain's" and "giant sales" will not have a single giant to sell. Banks will still offer their tautological "free gifts." Perhaps the year's weirdest notice was spotted in a Toledo restaurant: "Shirts, socks and shoes must be worn to be served...
Laura Esserman (you'll be hearing that name a lot) began her quest for the weirdest entry in the "And when I Die..." section, filling out the "Leader of the Pack" question with "I'll never forget you, THE INDIGESTION STAYS ON MY MIND...
...either the hottest story-or the weirdest coincidence-in the history of publishing. In the staid pages of Woman 's Day last month, the wife of an Illinois minister preached passionately about how the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution would help housewives. In the Ladies' Home Journal, the wives of seven 1976 presidential contenders voted 5 to 2 for the ERA and told why. (Only Cornelia Wallace and Nancy Reagan were against it.) The ardently feminist Ms. ran a story by Actor Alan Alda explaining how the amendment could benefit men. In fact, one kind...
...pint, their rib cages and muscles have a flayed pathos that transcends the crudeness of carving and drawing; and in some pieces, like the articulated figure of the Standing Christ, with rawhide-hinged elbows, the imagery of pain acquires an immense expressive force. In some ways the weirdest santos of all were the penitential death figures, especially a fine 19th century death figure kneeling on a grave. The anatomy is haywire, the drawing childish; but this emptily grinning totem of wooden bones, flagellating itself above a mysterious round stone, is as strange as any surrealist sculpture by Giacometti, filled with...
...survivor who has outlived his enemies. One era of social reform is over, and the cycle of history has swung round to the problems he knows the best and fears the most-the lunch-bucket issues of recession and rising unemployment. To Meany, Ford's economic program ("the weirdest one I have ever seen") will not pump enough money quickly enough into the economy to do any real good...