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...those of us who are not trapped by a past that has to be continually defended, know things are different. The whole context of government has changed, as well as the social fabric...
...bears many characteristics of the beginning of a new age. The supply-side tonic in America and the repressive policies on display in Poland may prove but two manifestations of a failure to come to grips with the future by resorting to methods of the past. The social fabric both East and West is straining at the seams, and the apparent desire to impose order where there is none is evidence of a disturbing unwillingness to confront forces for change...
...roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome collapsed for lack of hot air. Two months ago, the stadium's ten-acre nylon cover was inflated with electric fans. Then a heavy snow came unexpectedly early: a hot-air melting system was not yet in full operation. The fabric big top sagged under the weight of the slush, then tore, and finally drooped to within 60 ft. of the field. It took four days to repair...
...violent, unconventional metaphor and involved plotting--so involved, in fact, that bristling complexities, few of which are ever resolved, end by frustrating or intimidating the reader. A favorite theme seems to be the middle-aged protagonist grappling with the leftover complications of long-ago some adventure that ripped the fabric of a conventional life: a successful businessman, whom the CIA drugged with LSD 20 years ago as a random experiment, throws himself into the public eye by suing the government for his life's subsequent turmoil; a Vietnam veteran, past 30, goes to Florida to watch the filming...
...wall humanity stretching as far as the eye can see. Some of the demonstrators wear elaborate costumes, macabre bursts of imagination that pantomime the approach of death. Others carry posters and papier-mâché displays, an explosion of street art mocking the U.S., tearing with outrageous simplicity at the fabric of mutual interest that the U.S. and Western Europe have woven so patiently for 30 years. The signs vilify: "We are not America's Guinea Pigs," "Today's Children are Tomorrow's Dead," "Reagan: Your Bomb will not be our Tomb." The chants taunt: "We don't want to fight...