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...piece de resistance at Anaheim is the scoreboard, which dominates the park from left-center field. Built in the shape of a giant "A", this electronic leviathan stands about 100 feet high and completely dwarfs everything else in the stadium--a totem constructed in that peculiar fascistic style designed to make human beings feel insignificant. Perhaps that explains the weird passivity of the crowd that night in Southern California. I have never seen such a well-behaved, quiet group of baseball fans. And just as the management had broken them with architectural grandeur, so did it seek to reconstruct them...
Each system is marked by its own peculiar inequalities. Those associated with race, sex and age can be counted simply as signs of persisting discrimination. Most regional differences are hangovers from historical divergencies in region al economies. Some disparities, however, simply defy rationalization. M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow in his book Generating Inequality points to extreme variations in income among auto mechanics of roughly equal training and age - along with similarly extreme variations in the earnings of comparable physicians. Why such differences? Nobody has figured...
Eventually, 20th Century-Fox, which had made piles of money with another peculiar but good picture, Planet of the Apes, bought the idea, and Lucas set to work at the typewriter. Four versions and two years later, he was satisfied with his story...
...figured I should start off with an embarrassing moment that truly happened to me, though. It's a very small incident but very peculiar. Last fall, one night about two o'clock in the morning, someone phoned in a bomb-threat to Eliot House. Every resident of the House piled out of his or her bed and into the courtyard, as those nightmarish klaxon-horns which double for fire-alarms resounded through the rooms. Everyone left, that is, except me. I became, that instant, the first non-drugged person in history to sleep through a bomb-threat, and those...
Many such syndicated series achieve a peculiar fate: forgotten but not gone. However it is replayed, that will not happen to Upstairs, Downstairs. It has implanted far too many memories in far too many minds. There was the time that Edward VII came to be entertained at 165 Eaton Place for dinner (and Rose marveled at the chair which would support the King's posterior). There was Lady Marjorie going off to America in a ship called the Titanic. There were Richard's financial problems, Mrs. Bridges' pots of tea, Hudson's growing dismay...