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They are not allowed to call themselves Fascists, to praise Mussolini in their propaganda, or to sing the old anthem, Giovinezza, at their rallies. But 26 years after Il Duce was killed and strung up by his heels in public disgrace, the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement (M.S.I.) has built a membership of 400,000 and is becoming a force to be reckoned with. As Italy plunges deeper and deeper into a turmoil of strikes and riots, many inspired by ultra-leftist forces, increasing numbers of people look to the party as a good place to cast their protest votes...
...clientele at first were mostly zonked by bad acid trips, and later strung out by huge, mind-bending doses of speed (amphetamine). Finally, many were destroyed by heroin. Their condition reflected a decline described by Jackie, a victim who saw it all in her late teens: "Sometimes I wish I was back in kindergarten," she told Smith. "It used to be like that here when I first came-people giving away flowers, sharing their food. Now it's turned into a big ego trip, nobody smiling or sharing...
...around. Within a period of three hours, I got squirted with water, pinched by an incipient Lolita and hit in the back with a rock-hard, organically grown orange, which strayed from a ball game. Unsupervised by adults, kids of all ages did incredible gymnastic feats on a rope strung between two trees. In the main room of a green bungalow, the school's chief structure, four girls and a boy strung beads to be sold at a fund-raising fair, while two girls did mathematical crossword puzzles and talked ("Do you know it will cost $7 to have...
...solution to other drug "problems" is less obvious, but it should be clear by now that jail is a grossly inappropriate treatment for a kid badly strung out on something or other, or for his tranquilized parents...
...Tokyo. Their gloomy castles with gloomy interiors needed an especially sumptuous kind of decoration. Screen painters like Kaihō Yushō supplied it. Yushō's Fish Nets, with its jagged forms of dark blue sea and gold-leaf land, traversed by the swooping rhythms of the nets strung out to dry on poles, transforms an everyday sight into an event of monumental starkness and beauty. Fish Nets alludes to the passage of the seasons by showing reeds at different stages of growth, from spring on the extreme right to winter in the upper left. Elaborate genre subjects occur...