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...similarities to other great cities, is also uniquely itself, a special expression of its people and its traditions. "In the valley of Mexico [City] man feels himself suspended between heaven and earth, and he oscillates between contrary powers and forces," the poet Octavio Paz wrote in a study, The Labyrinth of Solitude. "Reality. .. exists by itself here, has a life of its own, and was not invented by man as it was in the United States . . . One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent...
Once again, the dread mid-April deadline looms. It is time for the annual agony of Form 1040. Struggling through the labyrinth of loopholes, millions of Americans will complain this week that they must be paying more than their fair share of taxes. They will grumble anew about fat cats who can afford high-priced accountants to find tax shelters...
...received by Major d'Aubuisson one evening after driving through a labyrinth of deserted streets escorted by armed men who announced our arrival by radio. Such precautions are not for nothing: D'Aubuisson got a bullet in the back during the 1982 campaign. Of the six people I found with him, three had been victims of assassination attempts, among them the vice-presidential candidate, Hugo Barrera, who was shot as he left his factory during a strike in October...
...poets striv ing for the memorable effect. Many of his selections are in fact from speeches in which Shakespeare insisted on the stage as a metaphor for the world. A scholar might find this oversimplified, but show folks have always had to seek a human-size passageway into the labyrinth of the great Shakespearean texts. The cheerful energy this approach releases in McKellen and the air of confidentiality it gives his evening are entrancing...
...working full blast, the air in the central core of the building rapidly warms up. (The human body in a 72°F room gives off 250 B.T.U.s per hour, about equal to the heat from a 75-watt light bulb.) This hot air is propelled through a labyrinth of ducts by ventilating fans. Some is mixed with cool air from outside and pumped back into the center of the building to provide fresh air; some is circulated past pipes carrying cooler water from the basement. During this encounter, the water from the basement is initially heated...