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...tourist trap of unremitting neon. Faulkner cruised the strip of Hollywood. The capital of the New South is Atlanta--a crypto-futuristic city where you can rise 72 stories in an outdoor glass elevator and drink martinis in a revolving bar and look down on people as they smash their automobiles headlong into one another in front of the largest Coca Cola plant on the face of the planet. Robert E. Lee and the rest of the "noble" ones are gone. It is nothing like that...
...tradition, a megabucks pilgrim looking for roots he never had and a place in which to settle. Rock really is not his neighborhood; his fur-lined melodies and forthright sentimentality make him stand out among rockers like a Coupe de Ville at a demolition derby. Diamond has been a smash act in Las Vegas, but he is neither as smooth as Sinatra, as cloying as Wayne Newton nor as annoying as Steve Lawrence...
...building next to Grand Central Station in New York City. Then prosecutors raided the premises -impounding two truckloads of evidence. Though it had the split-second timing of a narcotics bust, last week's daylight raid by New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams was trying to smash a ring of ghostwriters who sell term papers to college students. Instead of cocaine or marijuana, the evidence included papers with titles like "The Importance of Fate in Romeo and Juliet" and "Mycenaean and Minoan Architecture." The culprit: a term-paper mill named Collegiate Research Systems Inc. that sells roughly...
...Anger. Anger has given me great strength. I have a fantasy about Picasso. That every morning, when he got up, they'd delivered to him, hours before, a thousand glasses, and he'd take a wall and smash them before he'd ever start working...
...sent a mistress of his youth. He wants to obliterate the fact that he ever loved such an ugly woman. He is, in fact, unconsciously aping the Czech rulers who are persecuting him; he feels "an uncontrollable urge, an urge to reach far back into the past and smash it with his fist, an urge to slash the canvas of his youth to shreds...