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...would have resulted in widespread suffering and death, by famine if not by police terror and violence. His forced collectivization and his persecution of the kulaks must have been prompted at least in part by the fact that the wholesale refusal of the peasants to sell their already scant grain reserves to the state was resulting in starvation and death in Russian cities. Under these circumstances, the regrowth of oppressive, undemocratic state machinery in the Soviet Union under Stalin is easier to understand, if not any less difficult to condone...
...Paris; it is also a glossy, suspenseful heist film, dealing with what sounds, on paper, like the world's most impossible robbery. Directed with taut professionalism by France's Henri Verneuil, the movie is just absurd enough to amuse those who like their capers with a grain of salt...
...community to spread the word. There is a free store open there. Nothing is bought or sold; whatever is there has been brought, and probably will be taken. The people at PBH are also gathering other kinds of energy around the community: for instance, green energy (i.e., money) and grain energy (rice) for the big celebration this weekend. There is a green energy "drop" at the Orson Welles and people with bread baskets and oatmeal boxes are wandering about the streets and shops...
With book in hand, under her careful tutelage he had learned GANGOLA METHOD OF HINDOO CONTINENCE and could, especially very late on nights of Turkish excursion in the bathtub, stay awake and hard as grain inside Merilee for an hour or more. Sam claimed to be much taken with the Method, but Merilee sensed her Sam was a drummer and banger and welder and breaker and she admitted to herself Gangola Method was not ever going to become the Sole Trick in her Sam's Bag. That was OK too. Love makes us love in our lovers what...
...Mississippi River, the Cal Zephyr crosses trails once plied by the Pony Express. Onward it races through Iowa and Nebraska. In the cities, the tracks are rimmed by hulking warehouses, rusting automobile graveyards and smoking garbage dumps. Then, gradually, such signs as ROYAL KNITTING MILLS and BOECKER COAL & GRAIN, SINCE 1898 give way to BEER 10? SHOT 25? and COOP FEED. Suddenly, after a cluster of mobile homes, the train plunges into a great open expanse of farm lands...