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...little further down Brattle, tucked in The Gap's store front, a large gathering clots this otherwise fluid urban scene. Facing those who till the sidewalk and spill into the street, a burly, bearded man clad in a tuxedo jacket, narrow pink tie and baggy army fatigues finishes the Motown milestone "My Girl." An elderly gentleman steps forward and drops a bill into the open guitar case. "We should all learn from this man tonight," bellows the musician, mocking the voice of Sunday morning TV-gospel preachers. The crowd laughs, and some swell toward the case appreciatively. The guitarist asks...
...toot goes on. In some of the better Madison Avenue offices, admen offer clients coke instead of martinis. Says one New York advertising executive: "About 75% of all the bright young Turks in the advertising business use some regularly, some occasionally, but they all use it. Spill out a couple of grams of that white stuff on the table and everyone knows where you're coming from...
...surge of applicants has made the embassy in London the busiest U.S. visa office in the world. Lines of 100 or more British and other, primarily Third World, nationals spill down the steps and onto the sidewalk outside the embassy building on Grosvenor Square. Inside, 60 employees process as many as 6,000 applications a day. At any moment, some 60,000 to 80,000 British passports are in the embassy's hands. Boxes and baskets overflow with applications. Harried staff give hurried glances before rubber-stamping approval. Applicants, once thronged inside, now wait mainly outside. Says Visa Unit...
...fills up two lanes of spacious St. Bernard Avenue. The musicians, a dozen, whose numbers will grow with late arrivals, make a loose formation. The second-liners-young and old, black and white, genteel and funky, sober and not entirely so-press in upon the band's flanks, spill onto the sidewalks, straggle across the avenue's landscaped divider. Leading it all is a stately, gray-haired man in a frock coat and a silvered, tasseled sash, a spangled umbrella furled under his arm, a top hat held over his heart; and, alongside him, a shorter man, similarly...
...over squatting, the illegal takeover of unused housing. Squatting is not a new phenomenon in the major cities of housing-short Western Europe, but it has been gathering force in recent months, particularly in West Germany. Arrests of squatters have led to more demonstrations and begun to spill over into a broader, ill-defined protest against everything from materialism and technology to authority in general. Officials in Bonn fear the squatters' movement could become politicized or even develop links with terrorists...