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...subway and before us sprawled an acre of parking lot in the middle of which rose a vast stadium. Entering Wonderland evokes vague sensations of a military concentration camp. The building is surrounded by barbed wire, and the sound of dogs barking makes quite a din. The only things lacking are searchlights and watchtowers...
...wilderness of newspaper classifieds, riddled with bait-and-switch ads for apartments that were just rented, sorry. There is the patient wait for the quarry, an exercise in stealth, timing and cunning. Finally-if the hunter is lucky-there is what appears to be the target: lg studio, din. area, dressrm, window, kit. D/W, so expo. Then comes the price for bagging what is really a one-room flat: perhaps $350, plus another $350 security, plus maybe another $350 to a rental agent for finding the place. No kids, dogs, cats, Venus's-flytraps or wild parties, please...
...workingman comes to understand he is no more than a commodity. A world war is fought for democracy and the benefit of the wealthy. Flappers flap and workers grow accustomed to Henry Ford's innovative assembly-line factory techniques and nobody--rich or poor--can hear over all the din. No one can think. They just keep on laboring and dancing. And stepping up the pace...
...state capitol one morning last week, he was besieged by a group of miners who had come to demonstrate. "What about the National Guard, Governor?" one of them shouted. Rockefeller, whose grandfather ran a mine where the National Guard killed 40 strikers in 1914, yelled back over the din: "I have nothing to say about that. There isn't going to be a problem, is there...
...world began to wobble after 1918 and the war that took the life of his son. The colonial India where he was born in 1865 lives on in Monty Python skits. In America, Kipling's credit lines followed those of Gary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Gunga Din, Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell in Kim, Sean Connery and Michael Caine in The Man Who Would Be King and, of course, Sabu, star of Hollywood's The Jungle Book...