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Escape from Boredom. Round the clock Hastings rocked, while police, outmanned and outwheeled, called in reinforcements from nearby towns. Not until Monday morning, after Scotland Yard had airlifted four planeloads of riot cops from London, did they manage to round up the rioting youngsters and march them sternly out of town. Battle toll: dozens injured, 66 arrested. "It is time," said Hastings Magistrate Alfred Coote, "for Parliament to consider what measures they should take to crush this form of mass hooliganism...
Would legislation be any more effective than the vain protests of millions of anxious parents? Britain's youth, with more shillings in its pockets than ever, seeks escape from boredom-and from the hearth. "My Dad's trying to get me to join the Young Conservatives," sniffs a teen-age girl. "But I like this set. They're nice, and they say what they mean." "We hope to stay smart forever, not shoddy like our parents," adds a Mod leader...
...characters are mostly Greenwich Village idiots. But though the chief idiot, Manny Fells, has lowered himself by his own bootstraps into the right kind of roach-ridden Manhattan loft studio, he is neither junkie nor jazzman but a 26-year-old adolescent with tired blood. Hunger, and doubtless boredom, drives him to nothing more desperate than a temporary Christmastime job with a schlock detective agency. The agency lends him a car, car and cash attract a girl friend, and his upfall is assured. Author Gelber's anteroom to hell has become a shabby little way station on the train...
JOHNSON'S WAX has a fine film totally innocent of commercial or waxy intent. A little boy stares at the city through a prism that changes boredom to beauty. For the viewer the film does much the same thing. To Be Alive! is one of the few events worth a wait...
...pieces for the titillation of its family audience. Fleming did; the aging essays reprinted here are the result. About the closest Fleming got to sin was a $2 taxi dance in Macao and a $100 bet in Las Vegas. Most of the time he hardly troubles to conceal his boredom. Honolulu he found "just another reservation for the pensioners," which he left "without many regrets." Berlin's night life "is certainly not what it used to be." In New York, "I enjoyed myself least of all." As travel writing, the book is silly and vulgar; as a guidebook, hopelessly...