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Convulsive Surge. The U.S. remains in the grip of the greatest construction boom in history, and the topping off is not in sight. Since World War II, building has become the nation's second largest industry (food production is first). It has accounted for about 10% of the gross national product, created new structures valued at $1 trillion?and that's a 13-figure number. In the past decade, Houston, for instance, has packed 17 major new structures into a 20-square-block area. Los Angeles has overcome its earthquake fears and built 107 high-rise office buildings. Denver...
...from people in the room to a back projected screen of people in the room. The objective reality of the camera has shifted imperceptibly to the subjective perception of an unstable mind. Similarly, Paul, ambiguously scarred by the opening accident, strives to keep a control on himself but loses grip as he suspects himself of two murders he has no memory of committing...
...strikingly identifiable, that it fleshes out the political fact. The turbulence of war, the patterns of black-white intimacies, the historically right setting, all these are fit ingredients for such a story. And finally, most important, the touches of unstammering, heroic rhetoric to scald the benches into the grip of the ultimate social and political meanings...
...political parties under the control of a special court. The court will approve only those groups that, in the constitution's words, "contribute to the advancement of the national interest"-a wording vague enough to enable the junta to outlaw any groups that might threaten its own grip on power...
...Jeff Beck is hovering over the drums at Waller's shoulder inserting notes in flourishes between the crevices of the beat. When he speeds up the tempo Waller has an anguished look as he slithers on the cymbals and stabs at the drums, as if in the grip of some force outside himself...