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...Some moviehouses close their doors only four hours out of 24. Many of the sidewalk food stands never shut up shop, and the blocks on either side of Times Square offer a pungent cosmopolitan tour of cheap cookery-hot dogs, pizzas, pastrami, chow mein, hamburgers, tacos. Garish neon lights stare down on cameras, transistor radios and the other gadgetry that will soon be bought by gullible visitors or grace the lockers of soldiers and sailors who have been on leave in New York. Record stores blare their wares onto the street while teen-agers flip through album after album. Prostitutes...
...could be read as pure metaphor. The outside form was always clear-as sharp and infantile as play blocks-sphere piled on cube piled on rectangle. But as inside space, the designs are illegible, and probably were meant to be. Imagine the buildings from the sketches: what rooms stare from those endlessly repeated window bays? Where do those interminable corridors go? Does anyone ever walk up that colossal staircase? They all reflect the processes of totalitarian politics-explicit in their demands, obscure in their workings...
...sidewalk women wave, raise the V-sign, occasionally a fist; men look puzzled, sometimes hostile. "Fuck you" the most common insult. A little yellow car forces its way down the street, supposedly cleared of traffic; police apologize. I stand for a minute in its path, hoping I guess to stare down the driver. He doesn't look up, and I move...
...Frederick J. Stare, head of the Department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, thinks shredded wheat is good for you, and he told a Senate subcommittee so last...
Appearing with the director of research at the Quaker Oats Co., Stare said that the chart failed to evaluate the cereals "the way 95 per cent of breakfast cereals are consumed, that is, with milk...