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...stunned city is left to wonder which is worse: the ease with which it embraced Stuart's lie that a black mugger murdered his wife for a bit of jewelry, or the knowledge that evil can wear an expensive suit, hold a respectable job, own a house in a pleasant suburb...
Along with new functions have come new problems. In many cities, brawls, drug deals and illicit sex in the rest rooms are not uncommon. In Washington's Mount Pleasant library last spring, a woman was found in a drug-induced stupor with a needle hanging out of her arm. The city's Martin Luther King facility trains cameras on its bathroom areas to discourage child molesters. The homeless, who nap at study tables and bathe in library rest rooms, are a growing constituency. To make space for regular users, the Tulsa public library in 1985 helped...
...just long enough to run out of pleasant conversation," said one staff assistant in the Baker research division...
That beeping is pretty loud, and it's not exactly pleasant. But with a lot of concentration, I was able to think of it as musical. After a couple of weeks, I had gotten to the point where, instead of dreaming about screeching hawks, I was dreaming about ice cream trucks. Given a few more weeks, I'm sure I would have dreamt about choirs, or even singing angels...
...Marty rescued them in the earlier film -- has survived into the 21st century too. What's worse, on their voyage into the future Marty and Doc unwittingly provide him with the means to construct a dark alternate history beginning in 1955. Over its course, Biff has managed to turn pleasant little Hill Valley, Calif., into a hellish variant of Las Vegas, with himself as its czar. He has even contrived to make Marty's mother a widow and marry her, turning her into an alcoholic and Marty into an abused stepson...