King Creon: there had to be one man who said yes. Somebody had to agree to captain the ship. She had sprung a hundred leaks; she was loaded to the waterline with crime, ignorance, poverty …

The next blow came when the SD Transit took off the bus for those of us who lived in the middle section of Lemon Grove. By that time I had bad foot trouble.

The big savings are reaped on goods whose prices are controlled by the Mexican government.

A neighbor across the way coaxed a male German Shepherd into her car and turned him loose in Flynn Springs, several miles away. Her own dog, she explained, was in heat. The German Shepherd had tags.

In the early Sixties, at the height of enthusiasm for movies as the most universal art form (probably the highest high of enthusiasm since before movies abandoned silence and split into separate tongues), there was …