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...thrall of the office is extraordinary. One senses it in unsingular things. For instance, I never saw so many lawns being cut at the same time. The smell of newly mown grass drifted out of the hills onto the flat land and overpowered the senses. There were American flags on the houses of the meanest and most ageless old recluses of my boyhood. The place was taut with pride. There was something touching in the spontaneity...
Broken glass glints in the streets. Garbage clogs the gutters. Burned-out buildings smell of smoke. Yet many of the merchants will open again-if they can get the money...
Conditions outside the cells in the courthouses were almost as grim. From criminal court in Brooklyn, TIME'S Paul Witteman reported: "The smell of vomit permeated the lobby. There were puddles of urine on the floor. In one corner, a Hispanic woman shrieked uncontrollably. Court officers administered oxygen to two women who had been felled by the heat and the strain of not knowing what had happened to relatives locked up in the cells. Police broke up a group of people being interviewed by a radio reporter. In the midst of the shouting and shoving, one man was arrested...
...months; after being refused permission to migrate to New Zealand or Hong Kong, he finally went into business with a friend in Johannesburg Ford predicts that in the future white Rhodesians may have an even harder time relocating than he did. "It follows you like a bad smell," he says bitterly of his Rhodesian connection, "No matter what you say, the stigma persists...
...INTRODUCTION to The Crowned Cannibals, E. L. Doctorow suggests that Baraheni's experiences point to a new kind of poetry, designed for a world where human interaction has been reduced through technological advances to the rawest uses of power, to the crunch of bones and the smell of burning flesh. The United States has helped the Shah build up an apparatus of repression under which people can be interrogated without recourse to any legal process, freeing the Shah to spend his country's wealth without questions from the population...