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...soon as I turned the corner onto St. Peter Street, a pounding in the chest that was as familiar as the humid embrace of a New Orleans summer night. It grew stronger as I crossed Royal Street and saw the two battered music cases hanging over a wrought-iron gate. Brass letters on them spelled out the words PRESERVATION HALL. I heard a bass drum, a sprinkle of piano notes and the growl of a trumpet driving home a blues chorus...
DIED. Jacques Tati, 75, whimsical French film maker, forever associated with his gangly, amiable and bewildered persona Monsieur Hulot; of a lung blood clot. A droll mime, Tati made films (Mr. Hulot's Holiday, 1954; the Oscar-winning Mon Onde, 1958; four others) that were meticulously wrought explosions of philosophical slapstick with little dialogue and less plot, suggesting that modern values are topsy-turvy. Said he: "What I am trying to prove is that at bottom everyone is amusing...
...families, churches, music (bowling and unions came later) and rooted them in a home. Detroit has a high concentration of owners of single-family homes. Take Hazel Park: block after block of the American dream turned into one-story frame houses with chain-link fences, white ruffled curtains and wrought-iron posts holding up aluminum porches. They sell, in selling tunes, for $28,000 to $42,000. Imminent bankruptcy haunts the shopping streets, but in the homes-crowded, some of them, with relatives out of work-they try not to let on they are worried...
...world does not work very well with every man for himself. It is precisely that feeling which creates the links among the pillmakers, sellers, testers and users in the first place, a sense that life only progresses and avoids hysteria through various mutual dependencies, no matter how delicately wrought...
While Disney's successors have clung to the founder's ugly acronym (Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), they have departed from his Utopian concept of a real-life community evolving in harmony with an ever changing and beneficent technology. What they have wrought is not the town but the adult toy of the future. Epcot is a mind-pummeling assault of electronic ingenuity, historical fact, fancy, showmanship, faith, hope...