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...Exactly $1.50 tax on each person in Cambridge could provide 20,000 bicycles, which if they were properly marked and identified could not be taken out of the city or stolen. They would belong to everybody: it would be a step away from our automobile system of transportation. Eventually it would be nice to do away with all streets, except for the necessary firelanes...
...next day that state's attorney demanded that I be sentenced to two-and-one-half years, and in spite of Vogel's convincing defense that I didn't even belong under the Slave-trade paragraph, and that at most I should be remonstrated for giving Elizabeth escape tips and that on one in the West had put me up to it, the indictment stood. In my last word before the judge and two-man jury I simply told them that I took all the blame for anything that I or Elizabeth might have done, but that there...
That sound you hear is of checkbooks closing all over Hollywood. The books belong to the smart money; the reason for their action is The Last Movie* by Dennis Hopper-the same Dennis Hopper who recently opened the checkbook:, with Easy Rider. The faults of that film are legendary-the paranoid swagger, the inept drug trips, the comicbook heroism. But the film also shared with other examples of naive art an undisciplined energy and a curious magnetism. Its minuscule production cost (under $500,000) and giant grosses (over $50 million) made it the Volkswagen of the American film...
...blind to the movement of history and not unsympathetic. "The backward races are kicking," he once wrote, "and more power to their boots." (But, Mr. Forster, the poor have no boots). He did not belong to history; his temperament was too ironic to believe in the future and too traditional to want to. He was forever looking backward, fondly brooding over his disintegrating times. Too fascinated with the corpse to get on with the funeral...
Eisenstadt said he refused to allow inmates to talk with the press yesterday for security and morale reasons. "We have many psychopathological persons here--people who really belong not in jail but in mental institutions. These people are prone to take advantage of such situations. We find it difficult enough to exercise control," he said...