Word: salo
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...anything any more and started hitting him and hitting him as hard as I could." Whether or not the story is this simplistic, the assassination was as disgusting, as degrading, as gross and pornographic as the worst scene in one of Pasolini's recent movies. (Decameron, Canterbury Tales, Salo: or The Last Days of Sodom). This massacre had no cause, served no purpose...
...Wasserman and Beal have offered help in relocation, but Salo is skeptical. "They couldn't care less about relocating me. To them, I'm just too small to be interesting." Then he added, "A whole life of my work gone to pieces because of one man's decision...
...Salo sees the change as one that will radically alter the character of the square. He predicts an influx of chain stores and big, modern retail outlets, that can survive the high overhead. "With Cambridge's rent control, Wasserman can't make much profit in his residential property, so he's got to make up for it on the commercial lots...
Darrach, however, sees it another way. El Diablo and the neighboring Tempura Hut are the first targets for change. The buildings, uninsurable firetraps according to both Beal and Darrach, are slated to be torn down soon. Darrach figures he's got one more month. Like Salo and most others, he doesn't know where he'll relocate. Instead of businesses and their high investments, however, he imagines construction of housing in the area, and gradual redevelopment of the whole square...
...contrast to Salo's dismay at the "unbelievable rent rise," Beal refers to the "restructuring" of the rents as "undecided," and adds that "some of these 'poor little guys' are making fantastic profits in these businesses now, as strange as that seems...