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...five-block site will rise an 800-room convention hotel shaped on one side like a terraced pyramid, equipped on another with a 16 story enclosed garden court. There will be three theaters (two of them for live drama), art galleries, shops, restaurants and even a wine museum. A fountain-dotted pedestrian mall two stories above traffic-clogged streets will link the buildings with one another and with the adjoining $150 million Golden Gateway renewal project of elegant apartments, town houses and offices. The developers budgeted...
...empty streets. Identical green and white signboards over nearly every shop proclaim 'People's Store'-though the Burmese people find very little indeed to buy there. Instead, they turn to the streets, where peddlers spread out on dingy cloths a weird assortment of wares, ranging from fountain pens and door hinges to toothpaste and flashlight batteries. They are much like the farmers in this rice-rich country who withhold paddy from their only legal purchaser-the government-because there is so little incentive...
...feel like a woman, like a basement tobacco shop, a busted fountain, a sloppy staircase. Dark, damp lists of words, you say them. One will say it all soon. Then you will not have to sweep up in the morning...
...dead ends or fragmented tantrums of defiance, fighting unseen gusts that are perhaps not there. It is hard to be different among crowds of other people trying to be different. In the Dada decade, Marcel Duchamp could shock people by exhibiting a urinal turned upside down and calling it Fountain. Seeing it for the first time today, hardly anvone would flinch-although a few might try to flush...
...antenna will point at the bug. Another detector resembles a small transistor radio, but the high-pitched whine from its speaker dies down as its whip antenna is swept toward a hidden bug. For those who do not want to bother locating bugs, a scrambling device concealed in a fountain pen can generate static in any radio-frequency bug within 100 ft., making it impossible for an electronic eavesdropper to listen to or record any transmission...