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...each evening, a plush white-red-orange-and-yellow Dash 7 deHavilland jet takes off from New York City's Butler Marine Air Terminal in Queens. Aboard are 48 or so professional and business people, but the flight is pure pleasure, the complimentary champagne flows and, best of all, the round-trip ticket is free. Thirty-five minutes later, the aircraft touches down near Atlantic City, and after a ten-minute ride into town, the jetting junketers are at the crap and blackjack tables of Resorts International's huge Casino Hotel. Resorts expects each of them to wager...
Indeed, with record executives singing dirges over the worst slump in many years, MTV is a possible savior. The hoped-for scenario: record companies produce the promos; MTV broadcasts them, providing free advertising for the music; viewers watch a video on MTV, like it and dash out to buy the disc. Maybe next year they'll be buying the cassettes...
...train is a community. At each stop, we dash down the platform to the food kiosk, hoping for anything other than pickles and kefir. The day of tomatoes, eight of us have to sprint for the last car, and all the passengers cheer. The Poles, embassy staff returning to Poland after three years in Peking, smoke heavily during the day and drink heavily at night. They sleep two to a berth, having wedged their luggage into the top bunks. The English, mostly students returning from a year in Peking, plug two-by-two into Walk-mans...
...vision for which horror is simply a medium. Beneath the macabre lies a majestic conception of good and evil, a perceptive appreciation of human nature, and a basic understanding of fear as a primordial element of that nature. King could be an artist. With endless sessions of revision, a dash of torment and a bit of solemnity, king could, if he tried, be a serious artist...
...trickle at many points and turned the riverbed into a soggy avenue of escape. Illegal aliens, who are disparagingly called wetbacks because they have to swim across the river, can now cross at El Paso by wading through knee-deep water. Once on the other side, they dash into town and quickly melt into the general population. In other places the immigrants must still swim, row boats or paddle across the river in rubber inner tubes. Their greatest worry is always the border agents patrolling in vans, helicopters and light aircraft...