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Surrounded by seedy peep shows, pinball parlors and bingo halls, the aging, garish Blackpool Opera House usually gives billing to vaudeville acts and variety shows. Last week, however, it housed a sober assembly of 1,000 delegates who had come to Blackpool for the annual conference of Britain's Trades Union Congress. Casting their votes on behalf of Britain's 10.3 million trade union members, the delegates overwhelmingly ratified an "incomes policy" that will limit workers to wage increases of no more than $12.60 a week in the next twelve months. The vote was 6.9 million...
...this particular afternoon it was hot and wet out. perhaps 95 degrees. and the fourists, wearing garish T.shirts emblazoned with racy messages that they had bought in the junk shops that lined the streets, were streaming by, red and sweating. There was a mediocre jazz band playing down on the corner, loud. The band, which plays all day long on the cornrt below my friend's apartment, is run by the cotoner of New Orieans, a man named Dr.Frank Minyard who decided one day that being coroner was boring and so called some of his friends, put on a Hawaiian...
...more professional-and garish-is Gerold Frank's oversized Judy (Harper & Row; $12.50). Ex-Ghostwriter Frank is a sob brother with impeccable credentials (I'll Cry Tomorrow; Beloved Infidel). He merchandises anecdotes with the craft of an attorney summing up for the jury. But does the author stand for defense or prosecution? Frank's descriptions of Garland on Garland are acute and empathetic: "She saw herself so impersonally she could say of her photograph, 'I don't like her hair that way,' or of herself on the screen, 'She could have done that...
...Garish Signs. Faced with growing neighborhood opposition, the franchisers have launched vigorous campaigns to better their image. In Chicago, Burger King assigns crews to pick up all litter within two blocks of its outlets. Most chains will agree with community demands to remove their garish outdoor signs or scale down their golden arches and revolving buckets so that, as a McDonald's official says, "we can blend in with the local decor...
...first there seemed to be no sense of impending disaster, no awareness of the mortal enemy gathering strength in the dark outside the city. Restaurants, cinemas and pool halls remained open and crowded; the seedy waterfront bars, lit with garish neon, and the French-style cafes were packed with people, especially the young. A 19-year-old university student from Hue typified the air of unreality. He was not in uniform, he said, because he had to complete his studies. But what if there was to be no more university? he was asked. "The government could not let that happen...