All that is necessary to do with this drink is to place it in an open saucer on the window sill and inhale deeply from across the ...room. In about eight seconds the top of the inhaler's head rises slowly and in a dignified manner until it reaches the ceiling where it floats, bumping gently up and down. The teeth then drop out and arrange themselves on the floor to spell "Portage High School, 1930" the eyes roll upward and backward, and a strange odor of burning rubber fills the room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The master plan was laid out months ago. Jack Kemp would give 200 rubber-chicken dinners (sometimes it's meatballs or just cocktai...ls) between Jan. 1, 1995, and Jan. l, 1996. What the plan did not say was that he would be expected to deliver the same lines, ingratiate himself to political hangers-on and, most humiliating of all, beg them for money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With girls, everything looks great on the surface. But beware of drawers that won't open. They contain a three-month supply of dir...ty underwear, unwashed hose, and rubber bands with blobs of hair in them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kitchens were different then, too--not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different... from a frozen pie thawing. Oilcloth and linoleum and apples in an open bowl and ruffled rubber aprons make a different aromatic mix from Formica and ceramic tile and mangoes in an acrylic fruit ripener and plastic-coated aprons printed with "Who invited all these tacky people?" And the kitchen sounds. I am not sure that today's kitchen is noisier. But the noises are different. Today you get the song of the food processor and the blender, the intermittent hum of the reefer and the freezer, the buzz-slosh-and-grunt of the dishwasher, the violently audible digestive processes of the waste disposal in the sink. Then it was the whir and clatter of the hand-powered eggbeater, the thunk-thunk-thunk of somebody mashing potatoes, or, in green-pea season, the crisp pop of pea pod and the rattle-rattle-rattle of peas into the pan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Central heating, French rubber goods, and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art..., and of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bonnie Lee: Why doesn't he jump? Kidd Dabb: Why, why should he jump? He's made of rubber, he is. He wants to hit the ground t...o see how high he can bounce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road.... Hunched and nocturnal, Where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball?... wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, ...aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The s...elf is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »