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...combination of events--the bust of the group, and the problems in the South End--began to register, I felt a momentary feeling of claustrophobia, the knowledge that the whole city was falling apart, and here I was to see the Rolling Stones; the insulation was frightening. At any rate, Chip Monck's near-continuous status reports--NASA style--were instrumental in keeping a possibly nasty crowd occupied...
Leave it to Mom to bust up the match. She tells her son he can only get hurt, and brazens the girl into leaving because she's "not what Don needs." Neither, most emphatically, is Mom, who nevertheless turns out to be a real heroine. Realizing after all her conniving that it is time her boy became a man, she departs in a cloud of humility, leaving Don to fend for himself and perhaps convince his paramour to return...
Those who came late to Wilsonian autocracy are familiar only with the brooding mandarin, ominously reminiscent of Sydney Greenstreet contemplating the bust of the Maltese falcon. The persona was carefully cultivated by the master, whose "Do not disturb" sign was printed in his face and on his stationery ("Mr. Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him to .. write introductions ... make speeches ... judge literary contests ... give interviews ... autograph books for strangers ... donate copies of his books to libraries . . . contribute to symposiums of any kind ... supply personal information about himself"). Critic Alfred Kazin suggests that "anyone so extraordinarily gifted, and obsessed...
...partner in Washington Square and we started talking. My partner is 'processing' her now. You've got to find out if they've got problems, if they're smart enough to say they are 18 when the cops make a bust. The majority of girls I've gotten so far got raped by fathers or uncles or somebody...
Figuratively as well as literally, bomb making is a boom-and-bust business. Last year it was bust for Norris Industries of Vernon, Calif., one of the biggest and busiest U.S. makers of casings and other metal hardware for bombs, mortar shells and artillery projectiles. The reduction of the American war effort in Viet Nam cut Norris' military sales by more than a third, though they still accounted for 28% of the company's total revenues of $272 million. Now the boom seems likely to resume with the intensification of U.S. bombing in Southeast Asia. In the first...