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...some 300,000 were deported, deemed medically or politically unfit to become Americans. Given the mass of people who passed through, though, Ellis Island's history is humane: 80% who arrived were in and out within a few hours. Yet today, roaming the decrepit, shadowy, once functional buildings, certain grim resonances are inescapable. These are Government buildings, after all, through which millions of Europeans were herded, bureaucratically categorized and judged...
Anyway, it's apparent from the first frolicking scenes of Running that this film's Chicago--grim, gray and covered with dirty slush--is clearly not the same shining citadel we saw last week in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There's crime on the streets of Chicago, unlike in picture-perfect Winnetka, and its up to Costanzo and his oh-so-cool sidekick Ray Hughes to whip the outlaws into shape...
Even before the bodies had been brought down, kinfolk and friends of the victims began the inevitable grim second-guessing. Why had the climbers been so ill equipped? Why had the school not known that weather forecasts had prompted two experienced climbing clubs to call off ascents the previous day? Wayne Litzenberger, who lost his 15-year-old daughter Alison, gave voice to typical reflections. "I would have expected they would have had wands to leave on the ground. That they would have had a radio. Why the hell didn't they have at least one of those things along...
However, the outlook is not completely grim. Although Haseltine says he thinks finding drugs to treat AIDS will take time, he remains optimistic. "We are where cancer chemotherapy was in the 1950s. We have drugs that are beginning to work...
...1970s, the total of outstanding mortgage loans tripled. Those who rented in that inflationary decade watched helplessly as the price of homes took off. People born late in the generation found that home prices were out of sight even before they entered the housing market. The tales were particularly grim in fashionable high-priced areas like Manhattan, where would-be yuppies desperate for affordable housing have even moved, VCRs and all, into rundown "single-room occupancy" hotels, sharing the bathroom down the hall with strangers...