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Virtually all of the 62 participating nations have matched the Canadians by ornamenting their own pavilions, the malls in front of them, and often their rooftops with works by native sculptors. Some, like the West Germans, have built entire miniature sculpture gardens, which invite the visitor in to linger. Others have focused attention on one major piece, like Switzerland's Bernhard Luginbuhl's tautly drawn Crossbow, which, while popular with children, elicits nervous twitches from some adults. Said a Binghamton, N.Y., lady: "Everybody's scared of it. They're afraid it's going to move...
...crime rate keeps rising, or seems to, especially in senseless killings and wanton attacks. Fear of the darkened city streets has become a fact of urban life. The memories of bizarre multiple murders linger in the mind-13 people dead in Austin from a sniper's rifle, eight nurses in Chicago killed by a demented drifter. The recollection of the Kennedy assassination remains part of the scene. A burgeoning, largely uncontrolled traffic in guns has put firearms into some 50 million American homes, many of their owners insisting that the weapons are needed for self-defense. In the movies...
...drives a car). And how much sadism his movies get away with. The sadism could be even more serious if Bond weren't amoral. Nobody can entrust his heart, even for a picayune 90 minutes, to a man who doesn't give a damn. So the camera can't linger over the agony he creates (a knife in the back) or escapes (poison in the tea). Bond has our sympathy only in limited amounts...
...modern cost-efficiency techniques have moved into hotelkeeping, much of the drama and elegance has moved out. Since space is the greatest architectural luxury of all, most new hotel lobbies are mean and cramped-areas designed primarily to handle arriving and departing guests efficiently, but certainly not spaces to linger...
...celebre in the L.A. area: Loyola University now fines students who burn it in dormitories; and at a West Los Angeles high school, a girl who lit some in the ladies' room was sent to the fire chief to be lectured. Yet the pungent odor is likely to linger on; legend has it that it masks the fumes of marijuana...