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...procession of dudes pauses to talk to Baby Love. Most have done hard time. Some push dope, many are boozers. All have bitter wisdom. Crocodile comes by waving a bottle of vodka, his eyes gleaming yellow. He tells Baby Love, "Wait till you do hard time, boy. They'll pat your butt, they'll feel you. You'll come home swishing like a girl." A huge dude, his muscles rippling, speaks in a cool bass: "I got a pah" of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes...
...needs. In the first place, purchases are limited by a strict rationing system that allows the average Pole a monthly allotment of only 6½ Ibs. of meat, 2 Ibs. of sugar, 2 Ibs. of flour, 10 oz. of detergent, twelve packs of cigarettes and a pint of vodka. That, as a gray-haired Warsaw pensioner wryly notes, is "too little to live on and too much to die from...
...quarts of motor oil to a salesgirl for a pound of coffee; in Silesia, the miners are reportedly trading coal to farmers for meat. For exorbitant prices, or hard Western currency, almost anything can be gotten on the black market. Sample prices: blue jeans, $180; one pint of vodka...
...vodka flowed, customary Russian conviviality was mixed with concern over the fate of Marchenko, jailed because of his prison camp memoirs, and similar worries about a host of other victims of the latest squeeze of Soviet repression. Tatyana Yankelevich, Sakharov's stepdaughter, who immigrated to Boston in 1977, angrily denounced Soviet officials who are "demonstrating their power on the bones of the best citizens of Russia." Biologist Vladimir Bukovsky, 38, who had spent nine years in Soviet prisons and camps before he was exchanged for a Chilean Communist in 1976, listed some of the dissidents who have recently been...
...Party begins, "I went to a party and corrected a pronunciation. The man whose voice I had adjusted fell back into the kitchen. I praised a Bonnard. It was not a Bonnard. My new glasses, I explained, and I'm terribly sorry, but significant variations elude me, vodka exhausts me, I was young once, essential services are being maintained." A passage from The Zombies begins: "The zombies say: 'Wonderful time! Beautiful day! Marvelous singing! Excellent beer! Would that lady marry me? I don't know!' In a high wind the leaves fall from the trees, from...