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...work hard and forego the sex and action of the streets. They must adopt the Protestant work ethic and not squander their meager pay checks on liquor or drugs. But where is the lower class person to get the job that will give him the chance to put the nose to the grindstone? Only through eliminating minimum wage laws does Banfield say these jobs will be forthcoming...
...high and muddy, and the trout few, 6-10 gets off patrol at midnight; we drive to a hot spring near Mammoth. Over the thermal source hangs a blind light. The sky presses high and clear; the Milky Way lighting out like the veins on a drunkard's nose, delicate filigree work on an ever-widening expanse of blackness. A couple of hundred yards downstream from the thermal we slip into the runoff. The current is scalding and strong. Briggs talks of Charles Manson. The night is black and steamy and lost--except for the blind light and the scissoring...
...performance also suffers because she's fashioned in her director's image. When she turns obsessively to the camera to suggest, "May be we could have a family. Maybe not our own; we could rent one," you'd swear she could be Allen with a wig and a nose job. But she lacks the timing of a really good comedian. When she's warned on her first husband's deathbed to remember that "Life goes on," she barely breathes between the moan, "I guess you're right!" and the quip. "Where do we eat?" Keaton pounces on that line like...
...underway. By next year, there will probably be Bicentennial ashtrays, cufflinks and toilet paper. Those television spots that have your favorite celebrities telling you what happened Two Hundred Years Ago Today will probably be reduced to noting the fact that Two Hundred Years Ago Today. Benjamin Franklin picked his nose. There will almost certainly be lots and lots of huge, teeming crowds, with hosts of crying children and dozens of cases of heat prostration. And lots of money changing hands. Really something to look forward...
...number of housing starts rose 14% from April, to an annual rate of 1,126,000. That was the first significant upturn after a shocking plunge. From an annual rate of about 2.4 million in 1972, housing starts had nose-dived to a yearly pace of only 880,000 by last December; in the first four months of 1975, starts stayed flat at a bit below 1 million. Carla Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said that the May figures "seem to indicate that a recovery is under...