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Meanwhile, planners hope that when I-84 is finally opened to traffic in 1976, Detroit will have reduced auto emissions enough to allow an outfielder playing on the interchange diamond to chase a fly ball without getting lost in the smog...
...that the biggest change he can spot from his single-engine Cessna is that in the early '60s "when I flew at high altitudes, I could see from the Gulf of California to the Monterey Peninsula on a clear day. Now at 3,000 ft., with all the smog we have, sometimes I'm lucky to see three miles...
...guards, some millenarians chart the signs of the Apocalypse with the aid of handbooks like The Late Great Planet Earth. They see smog and pollution prophesied in Isaiah; the taking of Old Jerusalem by the Jews, and the admission of ten nations into the Common Market are signs that the end is near...
...street. Some who went to California said it was better than Cambridge, except for Telegraph Avenue which was worse, and the ones who stayed in New York had no fixed opinions on street life whatsoever, having been forced to stay indoors all summer to avoid death by smog poisoning. There were also, of course, hundreds of kids dispersed across the country, picking watermelons in Georgia or salmon fishing in Alaska who were much too busy, too happy, or too far from the streets to worry about sexism or incidental acts of perversion. They are the lucky ones...
...much the way that fish cannot conceptualize water or birds the air, man barely understands his infosphere, that encircling layer of electronic and typographical smog composed of cliches from journalism, entertainment, advertising and government. Gravenson, a writer of TV commercials, undoubtedly has contributed more than his share of pollutant. But with a little help from his friends (he claims to have written his novel under the influence of marijuana), he seems to have hovered above the infosphere long enough for an entertaining and satirical look...