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...plot entangles the private and professional lives of seven women working at a place called Dreamland. Among them are Mickey, a gum-chewing spend-thrift running away from a sordid home, Yasumi, a loan shark who finally claws her way out of the business, and Yori, a weakling who despises prostitution but cannot stay away. Against a background of neon lights and haunting music, these women suffer, cheat, show flashes of compassion, and dream about escape. One who originally sold herself to support her son goes insane when the son renounces her. Another drives her tubercular husband to suicide...
...typical home of the American worker than, say, in showing the Taj Mahal as the typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what such furniture might cost in Moscow's GUM-if it were ever available there-Macy's was guilty of "propaganda" in saying that all that luxurious furniture could be bought...
Asked if he did not fear Federal encroachment, Neuberger replied, "I am not afraid of the role of my government." He said it is ridiculous for the U.S. yearly to spend "more on chewing gum than on cancer research...
Asked whether gum is manufactured in the Soviet Union, a Russian grins and replies: "No, we Communists consider that to chew without swallowing is unproductive...
Double Doors. Near Trenton, N.J., the caravan pulled up at a Howard Johnson roadside restaurant. Mikoyan breakfasted at the counter (tomato juice, toast, marmalade, coffee), and, as the Soviet Union's chief dispenser of consumer goods, studied with fascination a popcorn maker, gum and cigarette vending machines. At Perryville, Md., the cars stopped at the pink stucco Oakcrest Motel. Through an interpreter Mikoyan braced the astonished owner: Did he make a profit? ("That's what we're in business for.") Why did the units have two doors? ("One's a storm door.") Did his family help...