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Weighing the Profits. In New York City, members of the Mafia's Colombo, Lucchese and Genovese families are muscling in on the rich pornocopia, bringing new money and organization to the fractionalized trade. Since the syndicate took over the two-bit peep-show machines, the grainy amateur films featuring fading strippers have been replaced by slick color productions with sound, stories and attractive young models. Each movie is twelve minutes long, but in most machines viewers must drop in a fresh quarter for every two-minute segment. The 69 peep-show emporiums in midtown Manhattan bring in an estimated...
...worst bargain on the street represents a pillar of the neighborhood's economy: pornographic magazines-20 to 35 pages of sexually explicit pictures for $3 and up-and high-priced peep shows, strip joints and "adult" movies. Fed by a clientele that includes hustlers, briefcase-carrying businessmen and tourists, the street is riding a sex boom strong enough to pay the rent on some of the city's most expensive real estate. As restrictions have relaxed, the pornography market has become more explicit and more selective. The owner of one of the street's nameless bookstores (titles...
...exchanged his modest Peugeot for a Mercedes, which had been mothballed during the Revolution. The tight-collared Mao tunic is still the standard diplomatic uniform, though it is now smartly tailored and cut from serge instead of the customary baggy cotton. Beneath the diplomat's crisply creased trousers peep out not the proletarian sandals of the old Cultural Revolution but the shiny toes of genuine leather shoes...
Gardner takes a precautionary peep or two at Armageddon, and he says: "We are in trouble as a species." As one responsible man of good will to another, he drops warnings: "This free society begins with us. It mustn't end with us." But his emphasis lies with the affirmative, albeit a beleaguered affirmative: "We still have a choice...
...life. But Derby, near the manufacturing towns of Birmingham and Sheffield, was an early center of industrialization, with an excitement all its own. Even as a child, Wright was fascinated by things mechanical. He made models of machines, clocks and guns, a tiny spinning wheel and a toy peep show. James Watt, the perfecter of the steam engine, John Wilkinson, the iron manufacturer who developed the cast-iron bridge, Sir Richard Arkwright, the wealthy cotton manufacturer who invented the spinning jenny, and Josiah Wedgwood, whose name is still synonymous with fine pottery, all lived near...