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...these opportunities come to bad ends because Christian's outrage keeps breaking through his overcourteous exterior. He tells off brand-new widows who complain about their dead husbands' makeup. He is too quick with his fists, which are surprisingly effective. Yet Donleavy's New Yorkers are thorough professionals, blunt and disturbingly honest about their own illusions. Unfortunately, Donleavy is rather slippery about his own illusions. The city, he seems to be saying (especially when he pumps his prose full of Celtic twilight), is no place for a wandering Christian...
...Chicago, the Second City revue has a brand-new skit about a newlywed couple honeymooning at the Watergate. "What would you like for lunch?" the bridegroom asks. "A ham sandwich," replies the bride. Instantly a waitress bursts into the room with the ham sandwich. "If you want anything else," she says cheerfully to the dumbfounded couple, "just talk loud...
...young North African Jews organized street demonstrations to dramatize the substandard housing in which one-third of the nation's people were living. Calling themselves "Black Panthers," they complained that the Oriental Jews, who had lived in Israel for years, were as deserving of good housing as brand-new immigrants from the Soviet Union...
...visit to Libya last week, his fourth in seven years, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs reported: "I've never seen Tripoli port as crammed as it is today. Modest but modern housing is going up everywhere. Yet, on the 20-minute drive into town from the airport, the brand-new divided highway goes by acre after acre of makeshift shacks perched precariously on the windswept desert. But the new stress is on agriculture. Gaddafi the Bedouin, brought up to revere trees as a source of food and shade, has ordered a massive land-reclamation program to make 700,000 acres...
...made Fiats and even to visit relatives in the U.S. -rare pleasures in a country where the average annual income is $1,380. Bureaucrats are offered-and often accept -bribes for authorizing private use of scarce, rationed building materials, signing building permits, or simply not noticing the existence of brand-new villas in the countryside. As the national daily Zycie Literackie put it: "There was a saying in the town that an official arrives with a briefcase, and after two years he has a car and after three more a luxury villa...