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...find it appalling that L. Patrick Gray III considers the FBI just "part of the chain of command" or that he cooperates in every way possible with the Chief Executive, who should be above suspicion. What is appalling is that our Chief Executive is not above suspicion but smack in the middle...
...used to play very bad tours. Not an occasional crummy concert, but whole tours, rotten in their ntirety. This was because they'd all get drunk and beat each other up onstage. Which was particularly true of the brothers Davies. Ray, older and larger, could be relied upon to smack his brother, Dave, younger and smaller, around numerous stages in equally numerous dank halls across America. No more. Ray has coupled his social insights with his instinctive love of vaudeville as it appeared in English music halls, and transformed his band of drunken louts into a drunken semi-pro Long...
...them would be better if he could get away from simplistic generalities and vague impressions. Because, overlooking their constant repetition, there's nothing inherently wrong with his Demianesque adolescent themes. It is the hazy, romantic visions of the past, found even in the later social criticism, "The Homecoming," that smack of trite remembrance...
...street sales of heroin, mainly by blacks to blacks, totaled $65 million last year. Factory owners, who buy in bulk, may knock down as much as $26,000 a week. Their distributors can earn $3,800, and the lowly pusher, often an addict, gets about $ 125 and all the smack he can shoot-about $900 worth a week at current prices. Before he was jailed, one young black hustler, beginning from scratch five years ago, built up a dope-peddling business in Boston that employed 20 people and grossed $2.5 million a year...
...debt-ridden parson, Alger did not have to invent his scenes of poverty. His happy endings may smack blandly of fantasy, but his harsh beginnings have the bite of realism. Like all Alger heroes, Frank Manton is first and last a survivor in a tough world - a world, Alger makes protestingly plain, of child labor, a world in which a wom an working as a seamstress might earn as little...