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...Chinese Americans, who are gifted entrepreneurs and speculators; at the same time, most of the top corporate posts remain in haole hands. But for many A.J.A.s, what mattered most was their rising influence and acceptability, symbolized in 1968 when the Pacific Club in Honolulu, long the exclusive domain of the haole ruling class, opened its doors to Japanese Americans...
...people's war. This demand isn't as finicky as it sounds. The precise form of his awareness isn't too important: "A vague anguish drifting from page to page is enough to demonstrate the existence of the bomb." The writer's totalization belongs to the domain of non-knowledge. But without it, he would be reckoning up an abstract world, not a living world, and that is the shallow goal of an entertainer or a fraud...
...Eminent Domain. Butte was originally settled by gold prospectors, but it owes its development-and recent decline-to copper. In 1882, a prospector named Marcus Daly found a 5-ft. vein of 30% pure copper ore while searching for silver. Daly's discovery touched off a wild scramble for the precious ore, which was eventually won by Anaconda. By 1910, the company owned the rights to the minerals underlying 90% of the city. It also held the right of eminent domain, which allows it to buy up any sur face property that stands in the way of its operations...
Passionate Familiarity. So much for the public domain (a misreported vote actually did spur a 5½-hour walk out by New York firemen in November 1973) Smith refracts this municipal mischief into the conflict of two fire-fighting brothers, Tom and Jerry Ritter. Tom is an introspective family man who wonders what Spinoza and Kant would say about union politics. Jerry swings through Manhattan's East Side, spouting Dylan Thomas and Yeats. Both vote against the strike, but only one sticks by his conscience - and his hose...
...current show at the Marlborough Gallery in Manhattan chronicles much of the Avedon graphic revolution. It is also Avedon's formal move into what was once the private domain of painters-print selling at prices ranging from $75 to $1,800 for limited editions...