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...Consider, for example, the question of how to get increasing millions of people to their jobs. Seventeen years ago, the government girded Mexico City with the six-lane Periferico, which is now one long series of traffic jams (on a reasonably typical afternoon, a one-mile stretch contained twelve broken-down cars...
...life than derbies. A revolutionary operation to restore his manhood is being contemplated. The Jockey Club, arbiter of breeding and cold even to artificial insemination, does not know what to say about this. Breeding is the essential industry of Thoroughbred racing, and, in the midst of this broken-down year, it is a somewhat consoling thought that the fate awaiting prematurely retired colts is not entirely unpleasant. - By Tom Callahan
...York City was never in a sorrier state. Increased crime, impossible subways, broken-down buses, messed-up schools, filthy streets. Are these the accomplishments of a great mayor? My answer to Ed Koch's "How'm I doin'?" is "Not good, buddy, not good...
...Wilson's play: they had had a brief affair the vear before and Matt has returned for one last attempt to win Sally from the arms of her bigoted family. The boathouse is also, in itself, a bizarrc extravagance; in Michael Anania's set design, it looks like a broken-down Baroque cathedral of navy-grey latticework, paint peeling and planks rotting. The "folly" folds its arms around the encounter between two aging unmarrieds, giving them a spot just slightly set apart from the everyday to work out their conflict...
...Clean Gene did it somehow. He must have had that Glenn Marcus shooting free throws until midnight all summer, probably on some broken-down backboard nailed to a pole somewhere. Imagine a guy hitting 12 in a row from the line in the space of five minutes...