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...homeless people. In July, the city passed an ordinance making it a crime to sleep or lie down on public property; shortly before Reagan arrived, the rule was used to evict 30 homeless people from under a bridge during a rainstorm. Phoenix has also declared all garbage in alley-ways to be city property, and police say they will fine people foraging through garbage dumpsters for "stealing city property...
...make much of a difference to most Poles. The government will probably still have the power to keep opposition leaders in detention and militarize industrial plants. As a former Warsaw journalist wryly observes, "It is like a man with a knife asking for your watch in a dark alley. You can give it to him when he asks for it, or you can give it to him when he puts a knife to your throat. The authorities have lowered the knife, but they still want the watch...
Some time between sunset and moonrise, against a blue-white autumn sky, seven geese head south over the Detroit suburbs. They sweep low by a bowling alley and veer purposefully toward the pond at Hazel Park race track...
Most of the men in the bowling alley could tell you the year, the model and maybe the serial number of every car there. They probably built most of them. That is why they came to Detroit from the rural South and kept on coming for three decades. Appalachian roots still show in the way the men stand. Pride straightens the spine like nothing else. The Southern community, they are called, or "country people," or - very carefully and at some risk if it comes from an outsider's at some risk if it comes from an outsider...
...inventory of American slang now, however, can be somewhat disappointing. Slang today seems to lack the playful energy and defiant self-confidence that can send language darting out to make raffish back-alley metaphorical connections and shrewdly teasing inductive games of synonym...