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...have caved in. Leaking water has spread sepia stains on the gilt-edged ceilings and knocked loose hefty chunks of plaster. Pipes have burst, leaving muddy lakes. Toadstools grow from urinals and floors. Beneath 36 granite Roman soldiers encircling the balcony of the musty waiting room, rats and roaches prowl...
...glimpse of IBM's elaborate security apparatus. The company spends more than $50 million annually to guard its internal secrets. Hundreds of in-house detectives monitor employees suspected of being security risks, keep confidential information out of the hands of those who do not need it and even prowl around offices at night to make sure that desks are locked...
Kenyatta also charges the press attention to a national media that is right now on the prowl for stories that will discredit the affirmative action attempts of minority groups. "Generally, in this country there is a mood that says that affirmative action is reverse racism," he says. "What I saw in the press is the same thing I see on T.V., when folks in Boston complain that the only problem in their lives is that Blacks are getting ahead...
...beach bum with a glutinous Valley Boy drawl; he believes that "surfing is a way of life, man-a way of looking at a wave and saying, 'Hey, let's party.' " Linda (Phoebe Cates) and Stacy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) are sweet-faced sexual adventurers on the prowl for men and finding only boys...
...argument-true up to a point, but contaminated by a certain elitism and inattention to the present. Tour groups have changed the nature and freedom and spontaneity of travel. But the backpacking young travel with as much energy and expertise as Waugh did, and with much less money. They prowl the world a little outside the law, at great risk-dope smugglers sometimes, or else the dreamy, suburbanite Leave-It-to-Beaver youth between ashrams, on the road to Katmandu. The trouble is that these wanderers rarely can write very well, or bother...