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...more cataclysmic event the next day, when the unsuspecting Lucy ventures out of the Pensione for the first time to meet the "real Italians," foreshadowing the way Adela Quested in A Passage to India will go in search of the "real Indians." Innocently perusing the wares of a postcard vendor in the main square, Lucy stumbles onto a street fight--an Edwardian equivalent of a gang war. Fainting away at the sight of a youth expiring at her feet, she is carried off by the already enamored George, no doubt eager to demonstrate his frustrated manhood for the sake...
...smugglers and U.S. Customs agents play a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game at the Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossing, an inspection station that handles 27,000 vehicles a day. On one recent afternoon, a raggedly dressed vendor carrying a load of serapes could be seen watching the inspectors and tipping off the Mexican driver of a pickup truck to work his way over to lane 7, where a weary Customs officer was waving most cars through without a check. At the same time, another supposed vendor worked the other side, scrutinizing the vehicles for the Customs agents and whispering...
Until he heads east, Golen will continue his job as a vendor at Chicago White Sox and Cubs games. He says he has no fears or inhibitions about making the 1000-mile trek come September...
...fair. T shirts were on sale, decorated with tie-dyed spiral nebulas, skulls and roses (another important symbol to the Dead, who have more symbols than the Elks or the Masons). So were incense, posters, illuminated sweatpants, fly whisks for easy tropical living and magic cookies. "How magic?" the vendor was asked. "Magic enough to get you very high," she said with an encouraging smile...
...counterfeit Dead ticket. She was sitting outside the hall, crying, when a stranger came up and gave her a real ticket, and a rose. But drug burnout is a problem among these nice people. Keep your ears open just before a concert and you hear an LSD vendor saying, "Trips, trips," without moving his mouth. "Yeah," says Monica from Santa Monica, Calif., a pale 20-year-old who looks 14. "My girlfriend was using acid, and she couldn't stop dancing at the end of one concert. They had to bring her down with Valium." There was another girl...