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Some of the jobless who stayed put are struggling to cope. From the Detroit suburb of Hazel Park, Larry Hampton, 26, sets out once or twice a week in his pickup truck to search the streets for scrap. Sheet metal brings a penny a pound; cast iron $45 a ton. On a good day, Hampton earns $15, and it keeps him busy. "I've just got too many bills and not enough money to pay them," says Hampton, who lost his job in a machine shop last November. "It's scary...
...late spring 1901, for instance, just a few days after FDR's election to the paper, disaster of a sort struck--The Harvard Lampoon issued it first-ever parody of The Crimson, a stinging sheet playing on the stolid greyness that was the paper's hallmark in its early days. The lead story discussed in excruciating detail the replacement of one oarsman with another; buried beneath it was a one-paragraph item headlined "A Dangerous Attempt." A passerby, the item informed readers, had noticed a lighted fuse attached to Memorial Hall; at its end was enough pieric acid not only...
...grand edifices promote noble accomplishments? Speaker Brown thinks that they are an inspiration. "In these incredible surroundings," he said, "I suspect that most of us will rise above anything we thought we were capable of doing." That sentiment was echoed by Silversmith Mindermann, who is now working in a sheet-metal shop. "You drive by," he says, "and you look up at it, and you can't help feeling anything but proud...
MEET ARTHUR PARKER. He's a traveling sheet-music salesman with a lot of dreams. He dreams of his own music store and an escape from the drudgery of everyday life. He dreams of a beautiful woman who will revel with him in the pleasures of the flesh. Sometimes he says things like, "Listen, there's got to be something on the other side of the rainbow." At other times, he wails, "There must be a place somewhere in the world where the songs are real." But it's 1934, and only stars like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have...
...Munchkin. Christopher Walken's face is a gigolo's death mask: the character lines have been ironed out, leaving only the dry-ice eyes and the knowing pout. As icons, these four performers would seem perfect for the bittersweet revisionism of this musical drama about a sheet-music salesman (Martin), his frigid wife (Harper), his nice-turned-naughty mistress (Peters) and his slick rival (Walken).But icons do not always make for compelling screen personalities-especially when, as here, more is demanded than just another appropriate face...