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Twilight Zones. Factories have been ordered to cut power consumption 10% and everyone else (except essential services) must cut 20%. During peak load hours between 6 and 10 p.m. shopwindow lights are turned off, illuminated billboards are darkened, neon signs stop flashing. Worst of all are the daily blackouts, which hit 48 city zones in turn for periods varying between 30 and 50 minutes beginning at twilight each evening. Elevators stop, TV sets go blank, street lights blink off. As the lights finally return in darkened bars across Rio, a cry rises from dwellers in tall apartment buildings: "Give...
...Succeed succeeds chiefly by its light touch. Abe Burrows might have tossed satiric vitriol at the corporate image; instead, he paints a mustache on it. Bob Fosse might have whipped the dance chorus into the routine cattle stampede; instead, he stop-motions his dancers like mannequins in a shopwindow, and scatters them like parched, tormented acolytes around the ritualistic idol of an empty coffee machine in Coffee Break. Rudy Vallee cups his hands, megaphone-fashion, around collegiate Grand Old Ivy to give it just the kiss of the hops from Stein Song days, and the rest is a delectable kiss...
...quickly inspired imitators.* In the Hessian town of Seligenstadt, an 85-year-old Jew received a letter threatening him with crucifixion. Vandals scrawled "Death to the Jews" in red paint on park benches in Braunschweig, and in Rheydt the word "Swine" was scratched on a Jew's shopwindow. In the Ruhr, and to the north near Hamburg, swastikas and "Heil Hitlers" appeared on walls...
...stop before a shopwindow and on display is a beautifully made overcoat. You like the stylish cut, the color, and even the price. You step inside and the clerk tells you, 'That's not for sale.' Your determination leads you consecutively to the department head and the store manager, but everywhere you get the same answer: the goods are not for sale, but for the shopwindow. That shopwindow has been turned into a museum...
...before public buildings and jeep-mounted recoilless 106-mm. guns glower down the broad avenues, presumably on guard against the "corruption" and "imperialist aggressors" the Baghdad radio so ceaselessly attacks. Barefoot young people rove the banks of the Tigris, singing patriotic songs and shouting: "Nasser, Nasser." Every wall and shopwindow in town bears the image of the idol of the Nile-or that of Iraq's own Revolutionary Chief Karim Kassem...