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Plump Edwardians wander with suave decadence out of Aubrey Beardsley's world, and creatures consume them selves with Steinbergian detachment. There are silk screens from Warholville and numbers from Indiana. Psychedelia explodes and art nouveau swirls in the most unexpected places. Corridor doors are open on surrealist nightmares, Freudian symbolisms and early movies-all combined in a swiveting, swirling splurge of phantasmagoria, puns, pastiches and visual non sequiturs...
...Bronx House of Detention: A real paradise; luxurious bed and mattress; large cells with a cityscape of The Bronx. Breakfast served in each cell; hot showers available; communal corridor, where lunch is dispensed from rolling carts. Newspapers and notions readily available...
...student host was not happy to be a student host. He made it clear to me within ten minutes of our meeting that he had only volunteered his room because everyone else on his corridor had and he had been subject to some "pressure" and, besides, he had Law Boards on Saturday and he didn't like being dislocated before a test like that, and he hoped I didn't mind but he was going to take his radio and alarm clock with him when he left. He also let me know he intended to stay in his room...
...toward peace moves, also seemed to be relenting, particularly after several no-nonsense conferences with U.S. Deputy Ambassador Samuel Berger. For the first time since they were inaugurated one year ago last week. South Viet Nam's President and Vice President were seen in deep conversation in the corridor that separates the "Thieu wing" from the "Kywing" of Saigon's Independence Palace. Said Ky to an aide: "What can I do? I must accept this reconciliation for the sake of the country...
...doctor who sees the symptoms of a dread disease but neglects it until TOO LATE because of the press of work; the rich and prideful patient who is cut down to size by the egalitarian properties of pain; even Kostoglotov's brief, touching hanky-panky in a corridor with a pretty nurse named Zoya...