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9/13/16 3:16:32 PM
9/13/16 3:16:32 PM
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I heard the same thing from the late Veronica
She spent most of 1977 touring the USSR as a docent with a traveling USIA photo exhibit, a détente-era PR dog-and-pony show. Her first letter, from some drab provincial burg, described the town as having the character of a Potemkin village in reverse: "When I leave, they're going to restock the retail shelves, and pull down these horrible buildings." Afterward, though, she spoke of disembarking in Vienna and reeling under the onslaught of commerce. She added that it was like reuniting with an old lover and suddenly seeing all his faults starkly. "You don't mean me?" I asked her, appalled. "Of course not," she replied, perhaps tactfully.
cordially,
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Quite the business model
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rcareaga)
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- Sept. 13, 2016, 01:23:24 PM EDT
The Space Merchants by Pohl and Kornbluth as well
-NT
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malraux)
- Sept. 13, 2016, 01:45:06 PM EDT
What are you? Some kind of Communist?
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mmoffitt)
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- Sept. 13, 2016, 02:17:53 PM EDT
I heard the same thing from the late Veronica
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rcareaga)
- Sept. 13, 2016, 03:16:32 PM EDT
I saw (parts of) an old -- late 60's, early 70's? -- American movie on TV a while ago...
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CRConrad)
- (3)
- May 8, 2017, 01:55:15 PM EDT
Not the Control Tower, the now-closed Encounter Restaurant.
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mmoffitt)
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- May 8, 2017, 02:34:58 PM EDT
Nit: greatly enhanced airport "security"
-NT
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drook)
- May 8, 2017, 03:24:55 PM EDT
Ah, thanks. (To DrooK also, too, also too.)
-NT
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CRConrad)
- May 15, 2017, 06:41:28 AM EDT
Re: Quite the business model ah, the "goodmail" business model, how did that work out
-NT
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boxley)
- Sept. 13, 2016, 07:55:52 PM EDT
Remember, people in 1900 didn't know what an atom was. They didn't know its structure.
They also didn't know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet. interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS... None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn't know what you are talking about.
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