Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flash, and he'll give you an answer. That's probably because he's done it so many times before that it's become his thing. He's maybe 15, with suspenders and great big braces on his teeth. Flash has been on the streets for about three years. He gives interviews all the time...
...Flash says that 700 new people have come to Cambridge in the past week. Some sleep in the Cambridge Common. Some are lucky enough to find a place in someone's house. Some maybe go right back home. "For a girl," says Flash, "It's pretty easy. All she has to do is stand there and ask guys and one will take her home. It's a ball for a bed. But for a guy, trying to find a place to crash by asking people on the street is like trying to smoke a joint rolled in cellophane...
...that there's good dope, and they've heard that the heat isn't so bad here. The law, that is. "Which opens up a pretty touchy subject. The heat didn't used to be bad here. Since the Harvard Square riot, in April, it's gotten much worse. Flash is pissed at the polities. He says they're all from Harvard and M.I.T., and marched into the Square and fore shit out of it without thinking of the people who live in it-like Flash. But here Flash is probably the exception. Most street freaks probably think of themselves...
...Flash says that Cambridge needs a Community Center. Shiller says so too. There may be one soon. A new project called "Sanctuary" is opening this summer at 9 Mt. Auburn St. It will do some of the same things as Project Place, and may also have a hostel, where kids can crash for 25 cents a night...
...official link with Red China but from their rough tactics and revolutionary chants, which resemble those once used by Chairman Mao's Red Guards. The Maoist technique: coordinated production tie-ups at key points to bring an entire department to a standstill. One day will see a flash strike in a mechanical-equipment shop, the next, a two-hour stoppage on the assembly line...