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...tried to storm the doors; others sheared off toward nearby city hall, where Mayor Tom Bradley had taken up a command post in the basement. A flag was set on fire; a booth in a parking lot sprouted flames. Under the night sky, patches of Los Angeles began to burn...
...hour meeting broke up, the first fires had been set. As weary parishioners left the prayer meeting, some were shot at by rioting thugs. "Nothing you're talking about is going to do any good," one young man told the departing crowd. "Come with us -- let's burn...
Anderson and Merritt choose to keep the play uncomplicated. The direction focuses on the actors, and there is no abstract imagery thrown in to complicate the plot and take precedence over the acting. Instead, Anderson's cleverly designed stage and Robert Burn's wonderful costumes effectively accent the stellar performances of the cast...
Some of the students and faculty at Harvard are enraged by an irreverent parody of a deceased faculty member, and they want vengeance. The weapons they have chosen are censorship and ostracism..."burn the books and excommunicate the blasphemous rogues from the ever-so-pure and perfect society of Harvard...
...told -- veritable busybodies of them, providing child care and free hospital care. We never expected all that here, just a few parades and space launches and water we could drink. But our space program is a galaxy-wide embarrassment. Our regulatory agencies are so feeble that factories burn down with the workers still in them and even the President has taken a hallucinogenic sleeping pill blithely approved by the FDA. Infrastructure is a thing of the past. As for the widows and orphans, they can be found massing around the Dumpsters, searching for viable crusts. Too bad 1040 forms aren...