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...Wunderlick, the all-purpose sensibility of post-'60s exhaustion, is a rock star sick of mainlining on fame. In Don de Lillo's latest novel, he leaves his band and retreats to a dismal converted loft to watch the roaches crawl over the unwashed dishes in the sink...
...unanimity. When a boat steaming along the delta was hit by a Viet Cong rocket, the Polish delegate reported that "it is possible that during a low tide the boat had seated itself on the explosive device lying on the bottom of a canal, thus causing the boat to sink...
...economy zips into the second quarter with production, profits and employment all rising, Wall Street continues to sink deeper into its private depression. Stock prices continue to drift downward; last week the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 931, off 121 points from its high of 1052 less than three months ago. Far more frightening to brokers, there are growing indications that a sizable slice of the public has been turned off stock investments. The latest New York Stock Exchange survey shows that in 1972-the very year in which the Dow Jones average finally cracked the magic 1000 barrier...
...lose today, the racquetmen will catch their breath and meet an excellent Navy squad on Saturday. Though not as formidable as Penn, Navy's star Craig Dawson and company will be shooting to sink Barnaby's boys...
...film "good?" Did you like Brando's acting? Isn't Bertolucci a marvelous director? Was it, heh-heh, too explicit for you? Then, talk of what to do this evening, where to go next week -- a rapid shift of the attention that left no time for emotions to sink in. Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park, re-running the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent, twisted path around boulders and leafless trees. The fog joined nearby buildings into solid walls; the isolation, the desolation, were nearly as great as the initial feelings engendered...