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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Music Hall was, in effect, a world within itself, a tour de force of art deco dazzle and soaring ceilings that provoked awe and vertigo among the customers. The sheer quantitative excess of its palatial pretensions infected professional journalists with an even greater than normal addiction to statistical literature. Thus the tales of the Music Hall's Boswells are almost uniformly impacted with numbers purporting to measure every major, minor, relevant and irrelevant aspect of the plant. The printed record aches with such data as the number of miles of film projected yearly (5,000). the quantity...
...orange plastic ball zips through the air, occasionally caroming off an onlooker or one of the swimmers. Two giggling women start to push a third into the water, then pull her back just in time. It is normal poolside fun, except that everyone is naked and three couples are copulating in the water...
Even if these scenes didn't wrench us out of the normal world, perhaps, the story would, for it is often as difficult to fathom as the wanton brutality. Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu, as landlord and peasant, are bound together, unable to abandon either their friendship or their class positions. The two were boys together: DeNiro always following and admiring the peasant Depardieu; but their friendship was always flawed because, as Depardieu says, "I caught the frogs your family...
Rowe pointed out yesterday that the physiological condition of elderly patients differs from that of younger "normal" patients and that medical testing, diagnosis, and prescribed treatment of the elderly should be made on an individual basis...
...Normal blood pressure, he figured, ranges from 120 to 140. Young people most frequently fall in the bottom half of this range. But Dave had a history of high blood pressure, and his diet had made it worse. "The day before the physical, my blood pressure was 160. Then, just before I went, I took a No-Doz tablet to make them think I was dying." The draft board held Dave for 24 hours, a drug-detection measure he hadn't anticipated; but fortunately for him, his blood pressure remained high...