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...occasion to engage in any transaction with a college-educated black man, I gauge his age. If I guess he was born after 1945, 1 feel confident that the transaction will turn out all right. If he probably was born before 1945, my stomach tightens, I find myself taking shallow breaths, and I try to state my business and escape as soon as possible...
Even some FHA supporters concede that the program is not very efficient, since it helps relatively few people. Consider the town of Mount Auburn, Iowa, which needed a new water system to replace its shallow and inadequate wells. Mount Auburn turned to FHA, which provided $395,000 in grants and $140,000 in low-interest loans to build a new water system-for 187 residents. In Benton County, FHA spent $5 million to help an area with only 22,000 people...
Peter Firth plays Tess' pious husband and Leigh Lawson the sly rogue who seduces her. Under Polanski's direction, both characters are shallow and tiresome. Firth and Lawson, both competent actors, struggle to give compelling performances--but with Sarde's strings rising behind them as they utter lines like "Is there no hope for me? I'm dying for you my darling," they fight a losing battle...
...another flight, the evening's chief activity is well underway, as sweating tuxedoed men spill cheap champagne out of shallow glasses onto the expensive dresses of their dates. "Who are these people? Do you know any of them?" Someone's question wafts across the room, but it's impossible to tell who asked it. Everyone is smiling...
...Full moonlight drenched the city and searched it; there was not a niche left to stand in. The effect was remorseless: London looked like the moon's capital -shallow, cratered, extinct. It was late, but not yet midnight; now the buses had stopped the polished roads and streets in this region sent for minutes together a ghostly unbroken reflection up. The soaring new flats and the crouching old shops and houses looked equally brittle under the moon, which blazed in windows that looked its way. The futility of the black-out became laughable: from the sky, presumably, you could...