Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freedom is economically defined. It becomes a freedom to make fortunes, to consume happily in a materialist society. But does it follow that those who do not have money are not free? Certainly. Anatole France had a scathing line: "The law in its majestic equality forbids all men to sleep under bridges . . . the rich as well as the poor." Freedom is a feast to which the poor are not wholly invited. On the other hand, one thinks of Howard Hughes in his Las Vegas hotel, naked and phobic, living in his own penthouse gulag...
Throughout his life, which was flushed with publicity, Diego Rivera was often photographed. He filled the frame--a 300-lb. Silenus in suspenders and open- neck shirt, the liquid eyes bulging at the rival lens. One image shows him feigning sleep. He lies mountainously in the garden of his house in Coyoacan, his head pillowed on the stony side of an eroded pre-Columbian head. He is pretending to be a big baby dozing by his mother, the Mexican past, touching the root of contentment. No other photo so pungently expresses Rivera's idea of his own history...
...have grown, especially this year, todepend on the continuous company of friends tolisten to and talk to, especially late at nightwhen the loneliness can become intense. In thereal world, friends get together when they havetime for lunch, or for a drink, or maybe to see amovie. People go to sleep after the 11 o'clocknews and awake in time for a busy eight-hour dayat the office. Life suddenly becomes a long strechof mundanity interspersed with a few intenseexperiences that are far between. I envy those whoare leaving here excited to the depths of theirsoul about...
...rent pipes, hang out and get wasted. Most of these establishments are run-down and filthy, littered with ragged furniture, trash and graffiti. Rockheads will sometimes stay for days, spending whatever cash they have, so wired from hit after hit that they have no need for food or sleep. Women who run out of money sometimes turn into "cocaine whores," selling themselves to anyone who will provide more crack...
Meanwhile, people sleep on the streets while our tax dollars are at work waging war in Central America. We know we really ought to find the time and the courage to do something about it. (Things to do today: call insurance broker, add to IRA, smash the state...