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Those who wish to try their luck abroad are encouraged by the snakeheads -- who then link them with underground networks. Most of the arrangements are done by international crime syndicates, which cut deals with desperate families, then draw up the escape plan, procure the forged documents and furnish the transportation. One kingpin of the racket is Big Boss Ma (not his real name), a Thai gangster of Chinese descent who funnels mainland Chinese through Bangkok. Seated in the lotus position on a teak sofa at home in Mae Sai, a northern Thai town, Big Boss exudes confidence and affluence...
...Places You'll Go! and the Brady Bunch kitsch revival certainly put a dent in that theory. There was even an underground movement to make Ernie our Class Day speaker. And Michael Landon, whose "Highway to Heaven" didn't score too highly with viewers our age, brought back many fans for his last appearance on "The Tonight Show" shortly before his death...
Doctors who work with AIDS patients in particular are aware of the underground system that provides the information and the means for suicide. "You have to understand what it is I see," says a Los Angeles doctor, who has prescribed medication that he knew would likely end up killing his patient. "I see people in agony. Most of my patients are pretty sophisticated. They know the exact dosage that will kill them. By God, if someone is dying, far be it from me to say 'Hey, tough...
...almost expects the David Kennedy/Marjorie Garber/ Barbara Johnson crowd to make cameo appearances at the various social gatherings around which much of the narrative is centered, responding authoritatively to questions such as whether "the dissemination of revolutionary ideas through popular underground art such as pornography is an interesting antecedent to the samizdat publications of (Czechoslovakia)" or engaging in discussions of the validity of meta-Heideggerian semaphorism...
...ruse to lead Harry to Senator Tony Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) -- presidential aspirant, television entrepreneur and guru of a political-religious movement known as New Realism. Kreutzer's neofascist aspirations have something to do with hallucinogenic drugs, new technology that enables people to interact with holograms, and a battle between underground political camps known as the Fathers and the Friends...