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...Dice Man is a blackly comic amusement park of a book, replete with vertiginous roller coaster rides of the spirit, feverish omnisexual trips through the tunnel of love, and crazy images reflected in the distorting fun-house mirrors of the mind. The master and slave of this berserk carnival is a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart, after the pseudonymous author, whose real name is George Cockcroft. Cockcroft took the hero's name as his pen name "because the book is in part autobiographical and I wanted to force the reader to take the book more seriously than he would a novel...
...flying at literally twice the speed of sound was more dramatic in what did not happen than in what did. My neck did not snap on takeoff, nor did I require a straitjacket to remain in my seat. The plane did not jerk its way up in roller-coaster fashion or plunge straight to the earth for landing. 1 had a feeling of rather unsettling normalcy...
...purely optical phenomenon as monolithic sculpture could be expected to get. But its slow, massive ceilings and straightenings are a product of exactly that quality that constructed sculpture reacted against: a steady continuity of line, edge and surface. The eye travels along these convolutions as on a roller coaster, accepting the variations of pace, slow in the curves, fast on the straights...
...cities welcome new skyscrapers as soaring proof that a town is on the go. San Francisco is different. Tall towers, local boosters insist, tend to destroy the city's special charm. They can block long views over pastel-colored houses and the sparkling bay, disrupt the roller-coaster sequence of hills and valleys. Still, as a peninsula city, San Francisco has nowhere to expand but up. It now bristles with skyscrapers, 21 of them built in the past five years. Gloomy citizens fear that the city will soon be "Manhattanized," that it will become a senseless jumble of bleak...
After a year as harrowing as a ride on a runaway roller coaster, the stock market ended 1970 on the rise. The Dow-Jones industrial average started the year at 800, then plummeted to an eight-year low of 631 on May 26. After that, the market began to climb back-haltingly at first, but accelerating notably near year's end. Last week the Dow-Jones average closed 1970 at 839. That was a 4.8% increase over the 1969 close, but still far short of the 1968 high...