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...hard-drinking hobo, fortified wines like Thunderbird and Night Train are the beverages of choice. On Jan. 1, the city of Portland, Oregon, with firm backing from Mayor Bud Clark, banned the sale of the firewater in the Skid Road area downtown. Trouble is, the street people began migrating to tonier uptown neighborhoods to buy their favorite drinks, unnerving well- heeled shoppers and merchants...
Nonetheless, the revival is a triumph. Robards' broad grin and quick-jigging movement at first belie and then reinforce his harrowing depiction of a man obsessed with self-hatred. He rockets around the stage with the febrile energy of a revivalist on skid row, but his every assertion is tinged with mockery. Although he claims to have seen the light, he is on a spree of destruction, not salvation. He wants to deprive his pals of their last shred of dignity, their dreams of resurrecting the past. Hickey was always a sometime drunk, still connected to the world of work...
Analysts viewed all these events as proof that the once glamorous computer industry is in a serious skid. "This is not a slowdown," said Esther Dyson, editor of the trade journal Computer Industry Daily. "This is an old- fashioned, dog-eat-dog shake-out. Before it's over, there's going to be a lot of red ink and some casualties. It's not going to be a pretty sight." The industry is still growing, to be sure, but at a dramatically reduced rate. It will show an estimated 23% gain this year, in contrast to a 56% increase...
...commander of destroyers early in World War II, says Ziegler, Mountbatten was popular but reckless: "If a destroyer could leave skid-marks, (H.M.S.) Kelly would have disfigured every sea in which she sailed." Even so, the author largely absolves Mountbatten of responsibility for the failure of the bloody 1942 raid on Dieppe, a sacrifice made inevitable by pushing and shoving between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. And Ziegler argues convincingly that Mountbatten's handling of the transfer of power in India in 1947 was a success, considering political realities there. He opposed the splitting off of Muslim Pakistan from...
That traditional protectiveness of the community can come to look something like class warfare. As skid rows overflow with the homeless, residents of nearby middle-class neighborhoods who feel threatened will often push back. Says one Yonkers woman: "Why can't they improve the quality of their lives without taking away from mine...