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...only will The Basement help you face your inner demons, it will also reform you, turning you from a vindictive competitor to a friendly, loving, benevolent stranger...
...with the young Robert Stack's "perky nipples," Hawks provides a marvelously detailed Proustian picture of gay bars in the `50s. He remembers "the thrill of having wool pants on that itched, and a white collar shirt that cut into your neck, and you were slow dancing with a stranger, and you were so hot and you were so uncomfortable with it all. And it was so delicious...
...while I might meet a nice woman who is also interviewing, and take her out for a Valentine's Day dinner (stranger things have happened), I'll probably spend my relaxing time in Connecticut working on my thesis. As a matter of fact, I'm currently trying to find a place in the text, as are my roommates in their theses, in which to insert the phrase "Love means never having to say you're sorry." While many apply this saying to their significant others, my roommates and I have pledged to include these words as a testament...
...ruin, and as workers with acetylene torches continue their cutting, Trentz watches the factory where he worked for years literally disappear before his eyes. If it were simply another smokestack victim of America's decline in manufacturing, it would just be allowed to sit and rust. Something stranger is happening, though: the plant has been sold to the Chinese, and they are taking it apart rivet by rivet and shipping it back to . their country, where they will rebuild it to help satisfy China's insatiable industrial appetite. Thought to have expanded at a torrid rate...
...while the city is no longer the "Genet vision of hell" that John Gregory Dunne described in his book Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season 20 years ago, it is still, for the moment, a stranger place than Omaha or Sacramento or Worcester or even Atlantic City, if only because there are so many cheerfully offered temptations to lose the tuition and so many normal-looking people flirting feverishly with that risk. The mobs on the casino floors are in a kind of murmuring trance, each middle-aged housewife or young lawyer at the slots or the poker tables...