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...said they were willing to receive the child, thus granting Malahoff his money back, along with an end to a story nobody wanted to hear in the first place, one that, when it was finally played out, involved an array of several unattractive personalities, a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, the specter of baby selling, the suspicion of fraud and deception, and a tasteless denouement on a television talk show, where the M.C. spoke of "renting a womb...
...their furniture as police stood idly by. Today, some 30 years later there are still rackets and plenty of brawling honky-tonks along South Cicero Avenue. And the town is still astoundingly white. Indeed, residents seem nostalgic about Capone's gang and as panicked as ever about the specter of a black invasion. Al didn't bother us much in Cicero," says a retired foundry worker who was a boy when Capone came to town, "and we didn't bother him. But we can't count on the colored not to bother us like...
Second, and this concern is different in kind and degree from the others I will discuss, agreements between American research institutions and foreign companies raise the specter of undesirable technology transfer. I don't think of myself as particularly jingoistic or chauvinistic, but I am concerned that many of these initial contracts are with foreign firms. Regardless of our best intentions in the matter, and despite contractual niceties that attempt to respect American patent law, I am concerned that we are too easily allowing our basic research expertise to be converted into foreign profits...
Mailer's subject matter provides a considerable sociological analysis. His insightful 1957 essay "The White Negro" is a prophetic vision of the hip consciousness that would develop in the next decade. Mailer said that the specter of the atom bomb and the fear of our collective death produced "the American hipster" who was predominantly religious and dealt with the fears "by seeking out the rebellious imperatives of the self." This piece also marked the beginning of Mailer's preoccupation with the New Left, which not only influenced radicals like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin but also involved him personally...
What is left, and still has its slick power, is the music. Songwriting teams like Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil composed terrific teen anthems for the girl groups. Producers Phil Specter, Shadow Morton and Holland-Dozier-Holland encased the adenoidal voices in a cushion of strings, saxophones and heartbeat percussion. In those years before rock became Ph.D. fodder, the girl-group sound married musical sophistication and the saving emotional jolt. That sound retains its power and appeal. On record, at least, the dream girls are still beautiful...