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lly AMY SIMKCIKI.
( umecock Staff Writer
Jusl think, from October 14-22 it will only eost 3
two dollars to lose your friends. At the S01
Carolina State Fair everyone seems to get lost ?
must relocate themselves at the rocket. At le
that's what the loud speaker leads you to belie
Walking through the main gate you are bo
bardcd with different stands begging for yt
money. There's the "Penny toss." the "jcwe
counter." "guess your weight and-or name," anci
course, accompanying you all the while, the aroi
of cotton candy.
The ;?ir smells too sweet and the fair grour
simply smell. There are thousands of people, sc
you're in a hurry to move about quickly, take
tranquilizer and relax, because you're not going
get anywhere very fast.
The best thing to do is enjoy the rides and plaj
few games of bingo. Watch your step thouj
because the ground is full of little surprises such
spilled ice cream cones, and discarded chewi
gum
.MY CUMOSITY AT the fair led me into I
Agriculture and Commercial Section. When
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was a switchboard that lit up and was entitl
"South Carolina, Our Bountiful I^ind." The bo<
contained an interesting show, spotlighting cr<
grown in South Carolina.
A humorous attraction in this section involve<
man spilling trash on his strip of carpet to prove I
effectiveness of his vacuum cleaner. (How woi
you like to do that all day?)
The prize fruits and vegetables followed ji
around (tie corner. Then the livestock was no
More were supposedly the prettiest cattle in I
state. Only their rear ends were visible because y
were mostly concerned about not getting kick
while passing.
U'TElt TIIE CATTLE. came the childrei
barnyard. This was the most enjoyable attracts
Included were Shetland ponies, lambs, duel
piglets, baby chicks and some beautiful fant
pigeons.
The animals were cute and interesting, but 1
people stole the show. Some came with th
families, some came with their friends, and soi
hxikcu iike iney came irom Mars.
Strange people had strange names. "Bert Clow
you're lost please meet at the rocket," I
loudspeaker blared.
Some of the people were just dying to get on I
rides. The lines never ended. The "zipper" a
"loop de loop" were the biggest attractions. Ji
watching the passengers on the rides could ms
you sick.
Dunking Bozo. 1 sure would have liked to h?
dunked him. He chided the crowd and had sucl
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wonder almost since its existence "P
several hundred million years ago. 'bip
ten that many years to produce a whi
sive, comprehendable book on the on I
1 Sagan's book, "The Dragons of he
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nial adaptations.
agan faced a major handicaD when hp
an work on this topic ? the jumble of
'on and specialized terms used by experts,
an religiously avoids using them, and
?n he does, puts them in layman's terms,
aleontologists have deduced that
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Iwo legs before they evolved big brains,"
writes.
OST OF THE T1IKORIE8 put forth in his
t are Sagan's. However, all scientists
d on some borrowed thoughts. One is the
, nausea
Carousel is
fear itself
By DAVII) H. SIIINGLEK
Entertainment Editor
For the many children pleading with their tired
parents, the carousel at the State Fair is the second
coming, a reward for one year's servitude for such
deeds as emptying the garbage every evening. But,
for this 20 year-old USC coed, however, it is the
devil's playground.
"Those weird, contorted beasts, straight out of
the book of Revelations, the beasts with many eyes .
Oh Cod!" she mumbles. "The movement, constant
and flowing, seemingly never ends." Yet she
cannot tear her eyes away from the monster.
"Perversion, yes perversion. The sexual connotations
abound, just another reason to flee from
its bondage, and she is right. Once the merry-goround
has you in its hands, your life is not your own.
"The symbolic thrusts, up then down, all the while
rotating; it s just plain trashy, something out of a
Feilini movie. It's gross, I can't be a part of it," she
continues, still shaking. ,
ANI) THEN, just as sudden as Hitchcock's knife
in "Psycho," a sweaty clammy palm clasps hers.
She knows she has no choice, she is being led down
the path of the road to degradation. She hates it, or
does she? Is she... no! Horror!
Perhaps so. she could nossihiv h*? ? ??
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masochistic enough to actually love it. A personal
admonition, yes, she craves the pain of the ecstasy
of the experience. She suddenly knows the truth.
The money is paid, the die is cast. She mounts the
creature of man's imagination. Her boyfriend's ,
hand stretches the distance between his "unicorn"
and her elephant. She is not scared now. But wait, a
sudden movement, accompanied by the lambasting
tunes of fantasy-like musical episodes.
Louder and louder (he sounds grow. Up and down,
around and around. Her blood is in a constant state
of fluctuation from her head to her toes, always on
the right side of her body. She clings to her beast's
head, clasping the fiend's ear in a manner that
could pierce it quickly.
TIIEN IT HITS HER, the feeling she hoped would
remain at a distance. The motion, the sickness, it is
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.,?v>.uu iuivcu. v.iiuiii, uiurn, up ana aown ? loud
music constantly. Oh barf!
"Please let it end, this hell on earth. The circus
lights combine in the distance, yellow, pink and
white. The candied applies, cotton candy and ice
cream combine within, red, green and brown.
And what does the combination of all these colors
do? It yields a sickening mixture of twilight shades
of sickness.
"Thank God," she sighs, the gears changing and
the ride slowing. The blood slowly returns to the
oxygen-depleted left side of her corpse. A sudden
jolt ends the ordeal, almost throwing her over ^
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evolution of the brain as a succession of ac- |
cretion and specialisation of the three layers |
of cranial tissue surrounding the spinal cord, l
oubhii itmes mis tneory, principally ex- I
pounded by Paul Maclean, laboratory chief {
at the National Institute of Mental Health, j
and modifies and clarifies it.
The core of the brajn is called the neural
phaccic Kt? tA '
. ..Uoo<o t,y iiiat-i/icuii. it is composed of the
spinal cord, hindbrain and midbrain and is
responsible for the automatic functions in- j
eluding reproduction, respiration, circulation
and heart regulation. This chassis is
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