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Like the Weather. Corruption and mistrust inhabit any society. But, as Kaiser says, "Russia really is different." It missed the Renaissance and Enlightenment. It draws upon a deep tradition of authoritarianism, and half expects it. In any case, Russians may profoundly fear the alternative, which they see as anarchy. To many Soviet citizens, the U.S., with its unemployment, racial troubles and apparently frenetic politics, is paying too high a price in instability. Oppression in the Soviet Union comes, at last, to be an expected natural force, like the weather. For Russians mistrust individualism. As a people they have a massive...
...exact coincidence with the world the Rockefellers dominate. Thus the Ludlow massacre, and its strikingly similar grandchild at Attica, are made to seem as if they hover over the family consciousness like a dark cloud--but in a world as protective and as solipsistic as the one the Rockefellers inhabit, that may very well not be the case at all. Collier and Horowitz make a convincing argument for wealth having immeasurable influence on the characters of those who possess it, but they draw the relationship a little too strongly. After all, these are people who, by any standards except perhaps...
...Referees inhabit a closed but unstable world, based on a jesuitical hierarchy of ratings. After working each game, refs receive a secret grade on their performance from the coaches of both teams and a "brother" official on a scale from one to ten. Ratings are an official's lifeblood. Those who fall into the bottom ten per cent of the pile at the end of the year are summarily sacked and replaced by "freshmen officials," who are brought up from the snakepits of high school ball and community leagues. "The cut gives iniative to young guys who are just starting...
...creation of the Maysles brothers (Gimme Shelter, Salesman), concerns the dilapidated lives of Edith Beale, 79, and her daughter Edie, 56. Both women live in East Hampton, Long Island, performing some dizzy charade out of The Madwoman of Chaillot. Grey Gardens, the crumbling house they inhabit, is overrun by raccoons, squirrels and other woodland creatures. The two women live mostly in one room, where the beds .are covered with cans of cat food, the floors ankle-deep in garbage. Occasionally a handyman named Jerry drops by for a visit...
...throughout the earth's history of many animal and plant species, from the single-celled, ocean-dwelling radiolaria to the dinosaurs. Thus, Crutzen and his colleagues note, a long-term threat to the ozone layer from any source may well be a threat to the species that now inhabit the earth-including...