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...overall crime rate was down, and murders had dropped to 549 from the 1974 peak of 714. Before his first term was up, he had amassed a budget surplus and coaxed $ 150 million from the city's business community to finish building Renaissance Center, a gleaming cluster of office towers and a hotel on the Detroit River...
...Family's Edith Bunker: "Wife, mother, grandma, neighbor ... philosopher, cook, mender of socks, bringer of beers, keeper of the faith ... Edith, Edith, Edith, how could you ever up and die on us?" He can be outraged, as he was last February when the networks aired a cluster of exploitative TV movies on torture, rape, child abuse and teen-age prostitution: "Watching prime-time TV is like being trapped in Sleaze City's tackiest honkytonk. One gets a warped and depressing view of what it means to be alive...
Even for a rainy Tuesday the courtyard seems empty. In one corner of the square, a cluster of boys with slicked-back hair and hair nets jostle one another. A black boy wanders by, a nylon stocking pulled over his head. The lunch bell summons everyone indoors. Only two people remain outside: the visitor and the longhaired boy who has the word LOVE tattooed in bold, blue letters across the fingers of his right hand. He asks: "Are you a new security guard or something...
...main cluster of building formed a long rectangle, which was set in the middle of a great field. About half a mile to the right the calm edge of the Atlantic Ocean rubbed against a thin strip of sand. The grass was strangely green, despite the season. On the far side of the chapel the vague outlines of athletic fields were etched into the ground, and in the distance, to the left of the science building, stood the tiny observatory, a traditional sanctuary for lovers, or so we had been told...
...three main characters plus a business client and two lovers of Michelle's constitute the dramatis personae. Their story appears little more than a cluster of vignettes, a series of day-in-the-life enes, all intimately personal but somehow not private. None of the important characters minds that people are watching: Michelle because she lacks inhibition. Guy because he is obliviously drunk and retarded, Manon because the real world is not her home...