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Such is the maneuver Veronique innocently pulls on her godfather in this movie, and also the effect the film, in turn, has on us. Veronique wafts the smell of lust, bankruptcy, illegitimate births, etc., by our noses, but does not allow us into the bakery. The film means us, you see, to perceive the "world of adults" as 13-year-old Veronique Prevost perceives it--with our noses pressed bemusedly against the window. For she, supposedly, is at just that stage of life (probably non-existent, but let's pretend) when she can catch all of life's cruel ironies...
...like that in Harvard Square," says Smith), the quickie places like McDonalds' and the 24-hour Jack in the Box ("We've got our choice of 43 dreck places to eat at down here," says Lane), and the widest assortment of bars and discos, like The Speakeasy, the Cantab, etc., etc., this side of downtown Boston...
Jerome Miller's method may have left Massachusetts with a $600,000 balance of unpaid bills in his wake, yet that 50% reduction in recidivism probably saved the state millions of dollars in terms of taxes it would have spent for institutionalization, etc...
...author divides his work into alphabetical sections suitable for future reference. A is for Alcohol, for instance, B is for Bottlenecks, ¶is for Clutter, etc. Cross references in the text link various subjects (see No. 5 below...
...trying to play tennis; some 24 million play seriously. The total figure has more than tripled in the past five years, nearly doubled since 1973 and is still growing. Last year Americans spent $100 million on tennis balls, $200 million on togs, $230 million on new racquets, stringing, etc. Close to $400 million went to new court construction. Prize money and promotion for pro tournaments and expanding TV coverage, which helped foster the tennis craze, came to more than $10 million...