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...bigger than Notre Dame, its dome only slightly smaller than St. Peter's. It took six master architects 52 years-from 1915 to 1967-to erect, and among its accouterments are the carillon built for the Eiffel Tower, one of the world's largest organs, two wax museums, three banks of escalators, acres of free parking and a restaurant supervised by a full-time French chef...
Because he stutters badly, Hoagland does most of the listening. He greatly admires self-reliance and know-how: the man who minces lead pipe to make his own buckshot and carries bottle caps filled with wax to kindle his fire on wet nights, the man who keeps his canoe upright in the rapids and knows which ferns to eat for breakfast. No historical fact or weathered detail seems insignificant in Hoagland's descriptions of worlds that are fading fast. Moose hearts as big as cannon balls and bears that love to eat the Day-Glo paint off trail markers...
With such sales, no wonder the conglomerates are conglomerating in the record business. From film studios to breakfast-food makers to rent-a-car companies?everyone is trying to buy up a label and go from wax to riches. Even the moguls are falling in with the style, if not the substance, of rock culture. They are not necessarily above trying out guru beads, stackheel boots or an unmarked cigarette...
...contain no occult powers. Saluting them or reviling them can do nothing to alter social policy. Placing a decal on a car window does not grant the bearer a moral superiority. Spitting on the flag is about as effective a challenge to the Establishment as sticking pins in a wax effigy of the Pentagon. The externals of America are, at best, only expressions of a fragile ideal. The land of the free and the home of the brave is not a boast, but a hope. Liberty and justice for all is not a headline, but a desire...
...audience was "the cream of Central Casting," said Bob Hope, adding: "This place looks like a living wax museum." The occasion: the 100th birthday of Adolph Zukor, who imported the U.S.'s first feature movie (Queen Elizabeth, starring Sarah Bernhardt), and founded Paramount Pictures. "I don't see many movies today," said Zukor, hunched over his cane, "because my eyesight isn't too good. I would work in pictures today if I were a young man." Zukor accepted homage from people like Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Jack Benny, Diana Ross and Michael Caine. There were rose petals...