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...Perhaps randomized housing (though in some cases, seemingly not so random at all) has had a few positive effects. The self-segregation that took place among students of all ethnicities and interests is now confined to the oversized blocking groups, and house life now exposes students to a wide variety of peers they may have never otherwise met. We self-segregate enough in the real world--a little forced integration shouldn't hurt...
...agency that trains any group of killing machines is evil. The Diplomatic Security Service messed up and picked the wrong guy, the supersmart guy to take the fall for them, this time, like always. The man they frame is of course not only super-human, but well supplied with random friends, the Starbucks waitress and this agent that moonlights as a bouncer at Any-club USA, friends who are willing to go the distance for him, providing him with beaucoup cash on demand...
This is most evident in Motian's frenetic "Fiasco," in which Allen's improvisation degenerates into seemingly random clusters of notes amidst heightened activity in the rhythm section. But Haden takes his most intriguing solo of the two sets during this tune, coaxing unworldly, industrial and percussive sounds from his instrument...
...Paris en bref: Take the cabs, they're likely to be Mercedes, go for random walks on sunny afternoons so you can get lost among the winding streets in old neighborhoods and, most importantly, always carry...
...irsute, shoeless hippies huddled in doorways, smoking pot, 'rapping' (achieving rapport with random talk), or banging beer cans in time to ubiquitous jukebox rhythms. Last week the sidewalks and doorways were filling with new arrivals just off the bus and looking for a place to 'crash' (sleep). They scorn money--they call it 'bread.' They feel 'uptight' (tense and frightened) about many disparate things--from sex to the draft, college grades to thermonuclear war." --July 7, 1967, from a cover story on San Francisco's hippies