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...title of the film is an allusion to Parisian life during the time of the Nazi occupation, the time in which Truffaut's story is set. This was a time of dramatic contradiction in Paris, for despite the air raid warnings and the sudden imposition of the Nazi superstructure, some normal life continued to exist. It was, paradoxically, a time of artistic flowering in France--many theaters flourished, and Les Enfants du Paradis was being filmed. Camus and the like were writing for the newspapers and carrying on the Resistance. There was an intellectual and social defiance which the Nazis...
...administration purged the Economics department of leftists and still consistently denies tenure to black and women professors. Even the students who wanted to see the movie Deep Throat last spring were not free from the administration's "protection" from the real world as they were subjected to a raid by the cops...
...middle of the game, an Islamic Guard burst in shouting "Freeze!" He ordered us to stop our game. I first thought that this was just another harassment raid, a routine feature of my work. But a cold Smith & Wesson revolver in my ribs dispelled that notion. "Upstairs," he said, "and don't talk or gesture to anyone...
...marijuana farmers. Over 1000 tons of sensemilla were domestically produced last year, at least 10 per cent of which was produced indoors. With the risk of an outdoor field being spotted by authorities, many growers have moved into abandoned warehouses with low rents. In the biggest raid yet in 1981, DEA agents found $200,000 worth of hydroponic pot in a warehouse just outside of San Fransisco two weeks ago. To their dismay, the crop was not only growing faster than normal, but it contained, according to the DEA, "at least twice as much THC tetrahy-drocannibol--pot's active...
More expensive than the nutrients is the electricity needed to run such an outfit. Without natural sunlight, expensive high intensity lamps must be purchased. When the San Fransisco warehouse's electricity bills jumped 1500 per cent the police became suspicious, leading to the DEA's raid on the stash...