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...essential to these customers as hairdressers and reliably neutral escorts. "Well, well, at last, it's my favorite," carols a champion seller, arms out to lead a client into the pink, louvered privacy of the dressing rooms. Once inside, the client keeps up the conversation, almost a stream of consciousness, rambling from how her daddy picked her name to her plans for furnishing her new condo to her doctor's decision about her thyroid. Like a good Southern girl, she remains sociable and enthusiastic, even at 65, in her underwear...
Baritz charts the machinery of bureaucratic deceit, from the inflated body counts from the filed to the stream of lies American leaders told at home about Vietnam. The most penetrating imagery he presents, however, is that of cultural opposition between the American teenagers who were sent by ambitious bureaucrats and paranoid presidents to fight the war, and the people of Vietnam whom they met, the very reason for America's presence. The average age of the American fighting man in Vietnam was 19, and he was given the power of life and death over all the Vietnamese...
Finally the stream slowed to a tickle, the national anthem was played, and the game began...
...ways, people with machines orphaned by IBM are better off than those who bought from firms that filed for bankruptcy (such as Franklin, Gavilan, Osborne and Victor) or simply quit the computer field (Coleco, Mattel, Timex). IBM's higher-priced models are still enormously successful, which ensures a steady stream of IBM compatible software, some of which will run on the PCjr. Moreover, the giant company has promised to continue to provide parts and service "as long as the product is around...
...vanished world. Alexander's celebrations recall a poem by his brother that begins, "Violently the spring bursts into Moscow houses." In the poem, the poet and his friends meet to hail the season. Yet Boris adds: "Our evenings are farewells/ Our parties are testaments/ So that the secret stream of suffering/ May warm the cold of life." The party is long over, but Alexander's book still serves the same high purpose...