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Snakes and Parrots. Burke called his stories "tales" and had no illusion about their realism. In his Limehouse, Fu Manchu stalks opium dens; every flower girl has a "lily-white bosom" and is generally no older than 14-Burke seemed to have a pre-Nabokov feeling for nymphets. There are...
The agents moved into the 21 police districts, posing as cops, garbagemen and vagrants. They frequented gambling dens and policy wheel operations, and they found plenty of crooked cops. These police were regularly making their "meets" with the persons who were buying their protection or picking up their "drops" of...
Other innovations were, of course, to follow, such as multiple player machines, free balls, captive balls and the like. But these are only refinements, with which the wicked pinball machine snares even more unwary players like me into those dens of iniquity known as pinball parlors.
The U.S. has a long and mostly inglorious history of meddling in the internal affairs of Latin American nations. Thus it came as no surprise to Washington that the Chilean junta's overthrow of President Salvador Allende sparked a flurry of angry charges that either the CIA or the...
Shanghai was once the wildest city in the world, celebrated for the ubiquity and variety of its vices, from the gambling halls and opium dens of Nanshih, the old town, to the cosmopolitan attractions of the waterfront whores of Yangtzepoo Road. This was the town where sailors got shanghaied. Today...