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...Milan apartment, on a dead-end street only a short walk from his office in Palazzo Durini, is a sort of luxury-class version of a Japanese monk's cell. He shares the seven rooms with a gray Persian cat named Micio. Except for Micio and a Japanese screen, practically everything in the living area was designed by Armani himself, who is mulling over the addition of furniture to his assorted ventures. Certainly the low couches and chairs here, all covered with satinized cotton, and the sculpted rectangular table in a favorite Armani shade of taupe, represent a strong...
...serpents, however, have begun to crawl into northern California's economic Garden of Eden. Though renowned for their liberal personnel policies, some Silicon Valley employers are under attack for their treatment of hourly production workers. Assembling circuit boards or inspecting chips is a tedious dead-end job that has attracted thousands of Mexicans, Filipinos and Vietnamese immigrants. Many earn wages of less than $5 an hour, low by industry standards...
Three recent films take a different approach. For the dead-end kids at the center of each film, morality is a gray area; only their lives are black and blue. Hector Babenco's Pixote (Portuguese slang for peewee) is an eleven-year-old São Paulo waif living his long days in a kind of Dotheboys Hall for juvenile offenders. In another school, pleasing the older boys might mean carrying the water bucket; here it involves stashing dope, spearheading escapes and, above all, keeping his big dark eyes open and his mouth shut. The film is canny enough...
...THERE, drive down Mass. Ave, to Lexington Center, and then down Rte. 2A into the middle of Concord. Go to the left of the Colonial Inn in Concord Center, take a right on Liberty St. and a left on Estabrook Road. This last is a dirt dead-end that stretches about half a mile; at its end are a farmhouse, and a sign that says, in the same quaint letters that mark Wadsworth House, or Massachusetts Hall, "Harvard University Forest." You expect a desk, with an old man to check bursar's cards on the way in and to make...
...homicidal maniac. In the towns, by God, the fund of common knowledge about nearly everyone was richly and sometimes intrusively detailed. The urban milieu has its advantages-individual privacy and freedom-but it can exact a heavy psychic price. Citizens who become secrets to each other dead-end in narcissism, cut off from the nation's public life...