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...Francisco can turn off U.S. 101 and, at the price of a few extra hours, follow California Route 1 along the coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. Most spectacular is the 102-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate through the Big Sur country to Carmel: with bare, steep cliffs on one side and a dizzying drop to the sea on the other, the narrow ribbon loops and spirals like a drunk. Subject to landslides and often shrouded in fog, it is closed at the first hint of rain, infrequently traveled, perilous and lonely...
Pseudo Science. As an intellectual game called "cool and hot," the system has great possibilities for a chatty weekend at Big Sur or Martha's Vineyard. Clocks (hot), money (hot), clothes (getting cooler in the U.S.), nudity (very cool), and almost anything else can be interpreted as media by McLuhan's rules. "Backward countries are cool, and we are hot." Autos are hot. The "blurry, shaggy texture of Kennedy" was a natural for cool TV, which is why "sharp, intense" Nixon lost the debates. Private enterprise is hot; public debt is cool, Iago is cool, but Othello...
...Sachs adopted the complete works of the Marquis de Sade as "the bible of my early youth." Armed with that perverse testament, he descended on Paris intent on a literary career. It was a time, Sachs recalls, when young men like himself sat on bar stools at Le Boeuf sur le Toit eying the great-Picasso, Cocteau, Milhaud, Satie, Radiguet-like "some Chinese under the Empire viewing the Emperor's sacred Body." Sachs got to know most of the sacred bodies. Cocteau gave him some secretarial work to do, and he repaid his benefactor by painting...
...President Eisenhower sat in an American military cemetery at St.-Laurent-sur-Mer and, with thousands of white crosses forming a background for his words, talked about his own son, who had graduated from West Point on June 6, 1944, who had not died in the war, and who had given him grandchildren to brighten his life. There was no sentimentality in what he said, merely strong feeling for the dead who had gone to France, as he put it, to gain nothing for themselves...
...Sur la Pointe