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Workers in the tent are busy with wood, linen and airplane dope making a new flying tab-the movable vertical control surface-for the 49-ft.-high rudder. Not long ago, rain and wind invaded the tent and damaged the rudder, which seems to have been repaired once before, since it bears an inked notation saying that it was worked on in April 1954. A few months before that, Soderberg says, floodwaters surged across Terminal Island, and the Goose was knocked loose from its tie downs, and the tail was damaged. The night of the flood, more than 25 years...
Mostly, the contents of these books are beyond a dreamer's imagination. Teen-agers with guns kill civilians on order, on whim, on dope. Rage explodes in all directions. Barracks arguments escalate into fatal shootouts. Corpses are mutilated for sport and trophies. A dead man is not allowed to fall but kept dancing grotesquely on a stream of bullets...
...City's hustlers and dealers. It turns out, though, that Joe is trying to sell a pound of cocaine he picked up at a Philadelphia drop-off site, and Chrissie is a mindless, though benevolent, sucker who babbles about reincarnation and defends Joe's dealing by remarking "Dope's all right--dope is for everyone!" Malle's Atlantic City seems to suck all the aimless and the brainless from everywhere across America to itself, gathering them in this sinkhole so they can leech off each other...
...kind of emergency familiar to trauma teams across the nation, particularly at places like New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center and Chicago's Cook County Hospital. The difference this time was the victim: not some dope dealer or faithless lover, but the President of the U.S. But even with the world watching, the medical ritual was the same...
...were written with an eagerness to communicate directly and forcefully. They still do, the old Hemingway magic now working on an audience the author never meant to include. Even the last letters, preoccupied with business details and high blood pressure, are full of information and curiosity. Getting the latest dope always meant human contact, not a pharmaceutical connection...