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...think our psychosexual problems in America are caused by the machine as well as by race. The feeling of impotence comes not only from the lack of independent mind or capable body, but also from a sense of being isloated in a world of synthetic, sterile, mechanized, plastic objects...
Mobs of screaming students last week swarmed through the vast Shinjuku rail way station, Tokyo's largest. Wearing plastic helmets, the lower half of their faces masked with towels as a protection against tear gas, the students scrambled over tracks and platforms, smashing train windows, disemboweling seats, splintering and setting fire to doors, benches and stairways. One rioter shinnied up a pole to smash the signal lights - he touched a high-voltage line and crashed to earth in a shower of sparks, critically injured...
...railway employees raced to put out the fires, riot police assembled in the darkness down the tracks and charged. They were met but not stopped by a shower of rocks. The sound of staves flailing against police shields and batons banging on plastic helmets echoed through the train shed. Bodies rolled in hand-to-hand combat. The battered and bleeding were carted off by rescue squads of both sides...
...room has little furniture. His black plastic executive-style reclining chair wheels around on a six foot plastic shield, to protect the carpet...
...hand corner of the blotter. That leaves him, finally, with only my information sheet, with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with the blotter edge. All this time, his feet are planted wide beneath the desk on the plastic shield. Always he looks srtaight at me, never glancing at his geometric handiwork. Blink, damn, you, blink...