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RICK BROWN, of Los Angeles
introduced a US$69.95
audiocassette program for women
entitled, ‘“‘Think and Grow
Breasts,"’ consisting of hypnotic
creative-visualization exercises
designed to take women's minds
back to puberty, to re-engage the
‘*mammary-building process."’

In May, a 75-work retrospective
of Joel-Peter Witkin, who
photographs human _bizarrities,
was scheduled for the Villa
Pignatelli in Naples, Italy. Includ-
ed in the show were ‘‘The Kiss,’’
a photograph of a corpse’s head
sliced open by a pathologist and
joined lip to lip, and ‘‘Still Life,’’
a decapitated head photographed
as a vase containing a flower ar-
rangement.

Ratio of emissions preduced by a
car driven 80 kilometres (50 miles)
compared to those produced by a
lawn mower running for one
hour: I:1.

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Items available in vending
machines: In Japan, where
Western businesses have long
complained of the closed retail
distribution system for their pro-
ducts, U.S. and Australian beef
importers have begun to sell cuts
of meat.in vending machines, for
about $12 a pound (vs. about $20
a pound for Japanese beef). And
First Choice Industries in Toronto
is currently test-marketing ven-
ding machines that dispense cans
of fishing worms, packed in earth,
for about $3 a can.

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New York artist Rirkrit Tiravanija
recently staged a show. at
Chicago’s Randolph Street Gallery
in which he cooked a Thai meal
from seratch for gallery visitors
and then left the cooking utensils
and dirty dishes on display for the
next month “tas a comment on
physical, cultural and social rela-
tionships.”

The following appeared at the end |

of a letter — or rather ‘‘an ab-
solute psychic command’? — that
was sent recently to the North
Shore News from the Interna-
tional Psychic Information —Net-
work, a Burnaby-based think(?)-
tank: ‘“‘copies of this letter have
been sent to Ministry of Health,
Attorney General, Minister of
Justice Ottawa Joan Sawicki,
Brian Butters, Vancouver Police
Association, His worship Gordon
Campbell and worthy Councillors
ALL, Libera! Headquarters, Rafe
Mair NW, Trevor. Lautens,
Hillary Clinton, Charles Bronson,
Clint’ Eastwood, Shirley
MacLaine, Judge Blackmum U.S.
Supreme Court.”

In a recent issue of the trade
journal Circus. Report was, a
notice placed by a clown,
threatening legal action if a com-
‘petitor didn’t stop using. the
clown’s performing name:
“Underwearhead the Clown.’’

Donald Kuntz, 25, was convicted
of assault in Toronto in March
after participating in the slicing
open of the arm of a 21-year-old
woman he had just met in a bar.
According to testimony at the
trial, the woman had agreed in
principle te ‘let him = drink her
blood, but it was. Kuntz who
opened the wound, causing the

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woman pain and forcing her to go -
to the hospital: According’ to °
witnesses, Kuntz then dropped to
the floor and licked up the. spilled
blood before fleeing. oe

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