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January 19--Today we went with Hans and his sometime girlfriend, Rosa, to an amusement park which was constructed by the Allende government. The swimming pool, which Hans said had been inexpensive before, now charged the equivalent of almost $1 per person admission--this is a country where a worker's daily salary is between...
...park and talked. Rosa, who is about 45 years old and out of work, is stunningly beautiful except that her teeth are rotting. She gave Enrique and me plastic bead necklaces she had strung together and asked us when we were going to marry Chilean women...
...Francisco you have a sense of the deteriorating quality of life. All the civility of that city is gone. I had to be escorted to the hospital parking lot when I worked late at night." In the city she found some serenity in transcendental meditation. In Santa Rosa she hardly needs...
Chester and Rhoda Bernie went to Santa Rosa recently from Los Angeles, where he sold insurance for years. In L.A., says Bernie, "there were fights on the street and parents didn't care. Our kids at school got beat up and their money taken away. But that kind of thing doesn't happen here. Kids play, but there is no violence." In Santa Rosa, the Bernies have absorbed more culture than they ever did in Los Angeles. The community turns out solidly to support the semiprofessional 75-member symphony orchestra. When Angela Davis or Jack Anderson speaks...
...made it to a lot of theatres. The focus of the movie is a state beauty pageant managed by Barbara Feldon (of Get Smart fame) and judged by Bruce Dern, but that's just a jumping off point for an examination of the so-called community of Santa Rosa. The comic sensibility of director Michael Ritchie, who did Downhill Racer and The Candidate, is not quite as cynical as I'd like it to be, but you can't have everything...