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...Atlanta on a 35-acre estate. Thevis, 42, once claimed control of 90% of the nation's "adult book stores," to say nothing of some 30 dirty-movie theaters. But he sold all that in 1973-for $5,700,000-and now he says he wants to wallow in virtue. He distributes clean records and clean movies. Further, he is trying to give his mansion to the city as a school, and he wants to create a park and shopping area like San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square. But the past still plagues Thevis. Convicted in both Jacksonville...
Directly across three quarters of a mile of river, beyond the sandbars that have appeared at low tide to wallow in the shallows like huge sea lions, there are signs of activity on "the Indian side." Small children scamper from house to house--16 identical government prefabs staring blankly across the blue through 16 identical broken picture windows. The wind sends whirlwinds of dust spinning frantically over the grassless strip of riverbank and single row of Monopoly board houses. Eventually, three or four boats, loaded to the brim, start off down the river to the estuary where the freight boat...
...grew weary from all the talk. Friends would wallow in their self-pity and depression. I began to hate Harvard and resented myself for ever wanting to be part...
...this kind of humor is overshadowed only by its morbidity. This spring thousands of opponents of the Chilean Junta are facing secret trials and executions. This raises to prime importance the placing of immediate international pressure on the Junta by the working class. The Crimson's response is to wallow in self-complacent irony...
DETROIT LIKE most urban areas is a doughnut city. The white flight to the suburbs has produced metropolitan centers in which lily-white rings surround black cores. While the suburbs prosper, sucking off more and more of society's wealth, the inner city, predominantly black, is left to wallow in poverty. America is becoming, or has already become, what Disraeli termed "two nations," in our case one white and rich, the other black and poor, each unable to bridge the gap of polarization...