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...blackout, civility increased in crisis. Thus natives took the time to direct visitors through the Minoan maze of the subway system. But probably nothing matched the extravagant politesse of Michael H. Thomas, the president of Cartier on Fifth Avenue, who offered his Mercedes 300 limousine as a plutocratic jitney. Said he in a New York Times ad: "If the absence of taxi service should keep you from selecting your diamonds at Cartier, I will be happy to send my personal car to bring you to our door...
...sophisticated range of machinery to enforce America's will in Southeast Asia. Veterans of the war would scarcely recognize the American command posts in Vietnam if they returned to them today. Instead of guns and arms and all the familiar furniture of colonial warfare, they would see a maze of "electronic battlefields" programmed with up-to-date communication, spewing forth "enemy" positions in any given area. They would see a complex of computers buzzing with information from the latest "unarmed reconnaissance" flights over China or North Vietnam. American ground troops are doing very little of the fighting any more. With...
...separate House meetings ("The problem is no one respects Nate as a scholar," one Fellow said) narrows the earlier and broader Corporation search to one for a man "with a primary academic commitment." It also contains the key for separating some mere notables from serious contenders in the maze of 69 names...
...into this vacuum that Louis appears. He becomes our path through the maze. Order. Its execution. In a world where over half the dialogue consists of lies, misinterpretations, meaningless rhetoric, in a world of charlatans, contentless rituals, Louis's imperative nature imparts a sense of causality. Behind his facade one senses a purpose, a historicity which propels the film through time...
Within Le Drugstore's maze of corridors and 14 shops, customers can purchase an infinite variety of far-out clothing-from wild lingerie to see-through shirts to sexy pants and fancy wigs. There are cigarettes from India and Japan and France, newspapers and magazines from Paris, Parisian cosmetics, chic boots, bags and belts. A delicatessen offers the usual fare-along with bouillabaisse, ris de veau and lobster en croûte. The bookshop stocks current bestsellers, as well as a discreet selection of high-class pornography and perceptive sampling of the overseas and underground press...