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...firm of Environetics to recheck the projections, draw floor plans, and figure out where every department should be located in relation to every other department. The result was a drawing that Environetics President Larry Lerner calls "a building profile"-a jagged shape that looks like a child's random construction with wooden blocks of varying sizes. When this interior scheme was shown to the building's architect, Bruce Graham of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he gasped: "How do you expect me to design around that...
...postal system that has survived silently for centuries. But Stencil, Maas and Slothrop can never confirm their conspiracies, and what is more, they cannot tell which is worse--a conspiracy or the possibility that there is no force at all behind the pattern, that it is an accident, a random ordering...
...people whom he once thought to be the inviolable guardians of his worldly prison. He attacks his son at the piano, he attacks his mistress and breaks her ribs, he attacks a woman novelist newly arrived for the arts festival, he attacks two black kitchen workers, he attacks random acquaintances and random strangers, and we last see him being carted away, along with several of his victims, in an ambulance called the Martha Simmons Memorial Mobile Disaster Unit, and talking vaguely about the prospects of investing in health clubs. "The Midland City Festival of the Arts," Vonnegut concludes...
Last May Dr. Robins obtained a list of the 13,240 G.I.s who had returned to the U.S. in September 1971 during the height of the heroin crisis in Viet Nam. She selected a random sample of 470 names and added another 495 names from a list of soldiers found in tests to have used drugs. Her assistants then conducted more than 900 interviews and obtained urine samples for evidence of drug usage. Their findings were such welcome news to the Pentagon that it embraced the study after learning the preliminary results. Of all the returnees interviewed, only 1.3% were...
...writes about. Where I come from, the landscape is already second-generation neon, and the politics are set by whether the last influx from Philadelphia was middle-or upper-class. There are no pretensions of communality, no historic town squares now hidden: high-rise apartments take their proud and random places next to split-level housing developments and an occasional patch of barren land. Over the last eight years, a "right side of the tracks" has developed, established by the construction of "wooded estates" on old farmland. Most of the drug-use takes place over there, as well...