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...PLOT. A 13-year-old boy named Christian disappears, and his father, who is divorced from his mother, hires a private eye to find him. The detective (who, incidentally, is handicapped by having artificial hands) gets a helicopter and cruises along the Gulf of California, looking for a blue Volkswagen truck in which Christian is supposed to be riding. Eventually the detective spots the truck parked at a tent camp in a remote area of Baja California. He lands at a nearby town, organizes a detachment of Mexican police and raids the camp. Christian, who is hiding behind a pile...
...police--he was in a mental hospital. As the authors describe over and over, the hippie myth carried by the summer travellers "Is continually at odds with the survival requirements of life on the Cambridge Common." This dialectic yields so bizarre a synthesis as James, an ace Volkswagen rip--off artist who decides when to steal cars by throwing the I Ching...
...result is an almost unimaginably stupid and passive materialism-the boredom of Warhol's silk-screened photos without their threat and bite. Thus, confronted for the nth time with another perfect rendering of reflections on the chrome gizzard of a Harley-Davidson or the pastille skin of a Volkswagen, one is apt to recall Truman Capote's sneer (about another medium) that "this isn't writing, it's typing...
...club was founded by Peccei back in 1968 with the avowed purpose of exploring the large issues confronting society. "We needed something to make mankind's predicament more visible, more easy to grasp," says Peccei. To that end, the Volkswagen Foundation granted the club $250,000 in 1970. Peccei turned to an international team of scientists led by M.I.T. Computer Expert Dennis Meadows and told them to study the most basic issue of all-survival...
...Volkswagen showroom. At the Walton trial, one witness testified that he had been at a union meeting when the local president urged the members to "tear 'em up" and that the union's business agent reminded men to pick up weapons before leaving. Other testimony established that the international had been informed of the Fort Lauderdale incidents and had failed to intervene...