European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns comments the season All year round by Ellen Goodman i have just been invited to an Endo season Sale an now Here i a woman who has not yet burned a strap Mark onto her and they Are Selling out the last Sun a woman who has not been in the but is warned to get my re hot bathing suit before there All a woman who has barely turned on an air conditioner and is told that summer must go to make room for the the mind my personal dismay at this invitation it docs not require an is not the result of some profound desire to Rush out to the nearest dressing stand in front of a three Way Mirror basking in Blue fluorescent and buy a i prefer candlelight and hand mirrors and but it seemed to me that this Ondof season Sale was the ultimate markdown of the entire concept of seasons have themselves gone entirely out of its bad enough that we uprooted assorted holidays from their rightful place on the Calendar and dropped them onto imagine what Mother Washington would say if she knew she had Given birth to George on a third but we now manipulate whole seasons out of their sequence without even a thought of Mother the most blatant example of this is in where the schedules Are about As natural As the boys of summer Start playing with the Snow and end in the hockey teams were still skating after the ice had melted in Northern As for i suppose its become the Tomato of you can get it All year round but its lost its in it is food that has been altered the most by our unseasonable Way of when i was a we used to wait for the strawberries to now we wait for the plane to its possible to get almost anything at any time of but its impossible to get it to taste like i have a Vermont Friend who flunked a Blind tasting of berries one they were not Blue or she maintained they were a species known As made in not Only do we alter we invent Tell for what our ancestors would make of the cruise season or the Holiday season As we have come to know and love it the plastic Man of the modern commercial world can stretch its arms into the most Distant calendars and once i read that Eleanor Roosevelt had All her Christmas shopping done by today shed be running the Christmas Cata logs have All arrived by Columbus they Are decking the commercial Halls with imported Holly before the 12 Days of Christmas have extended to where did All the seasons go what happened to the dictionary definition of season As one of the four Natu ral divisions of the it seems that the More we Are divided from the less the seasons Are divided from each c Boston glob Washington Post for latest in see my agent by Russell Baker tireless red spy masters arc toiling Day and night to ferret out americans who want to make big Bucks by ferreting out americas most precious secrets for the soviet what is the one secret these red spy masters will pay top Dollar to get their hands on seeking the i made discreet inquiries in the treacherous world of spy finance that put me in Contact with a soviet secrets broker known in that unsavoury Market Only As big Buck the i be was As suave As a Holly Wood so you want the big he the very i Tell me what you consider top of the and if the Price is ill ferret it 1 was lying of but lying is All right when you Deal with red spy Why do you try to deceive big Buck the buyer with your childish Little lies surely you dont expect to ferret out the secrets of a tireless red spy master with such transparent he was a cunning All but even you he a decent fellow like you 1 can Tell right away that youre not ready yet for the big and you know How i can Tell of course 1 didst you dont even have an he aha he didst know everything after i Laid my cards on the this is the card of my literary agent who gets 10 i this one is my lecture agent who gets 33 this one Here is my insurance agent who gets Bah you waste my he i will do Busi Ness Only with your secrets behave it or there really Are secrets not to be confused with secret secret agents have numbers x9 and for example while secrets agents Are named Harry and take 50 percent of everything their clients get from red spy i playing a in walking out and in taking the secret formula of the old coca cola with talk about thunderstruck when you say the old you mean i mean the real Buck the secret formula of the drink that led to the american carbonated Conquest of the world before that new gang in Atlanta turned it off to make Way for the new his greedy eyes so this was the big ticket item Moscow most desperately was it the secret formula for the old my Price is 10 million i not that i knew what the Ruble was but later i could look it Buck the buyer was too to talk Money of course you dont have the formula on your he sure i i i always tuck multimillion Ruble secrets in my suit so i can be tortured until in forced to Tell which pocket in carrying them in also carrying a bottle of the secret fluid that rambo uses for oiling his from big Bucks stunned expression i could Tell that my Little rambo joke was no joke at All to the the said the spy we have reason to suspect that some ingredient in the Oil with which rambo bathes his pectorals accounts for his curious it is of course a human rendered indestructible by a secret Oil applied to his pectoral and i knew what he Given a Sample of rambos secret pectoral evil soviet science could no doubt concoct a Spray that would Wash the Oil from rambos bared Chest if he dropped into Russia in midwinter to destroy the red and leave him to die of you think id really betray my country by helping you to save the red army from rambo i come off said big its just like everything c new York times chairman chairman uw5autilz that american music for m to who Are Black in i today crossword by Eugene Sheffer across 48 theater 4 test tube 1 Pacino part Sites and Capp 62 one 5 foreign 4 Tennis million 6 Mexico Call 53 Fiat neighbor 7 form 54 teachers 7 sing a 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