A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking o...ut of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
crew member [offscreen]: That's an awful big town San Francisco. Weinberg: Strictly a one-whistle stop. There's only one city... in the USA and that's New York. Chief Sergeant: Oh, you're just another hometown hick, Weinberg. What's wrong with California? Weinberg: California. The sun shines and nothing happens. Before you know it, you're sixty years old. Chief Sergeant: It's no different from New York. My sister's been tryin' to get out of Brooklyn for the last forty years. Weinberg: Brooklyn. That ain't New York, Chief. Once you cross that Brooklyn Bridge, you're out of this world. The only noise you hear is the hardening of your arteries. You know when I used to drive a hack, I had a pal who crossed that bridge back in 1929 and ain't never heard from him since.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering ci...vic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets ...the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At birth man is offered only one choice--the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence..., his life will never have been more than meaningless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The origin of storms is not in clouds, our lightning strikes when the earth rises,... spillways free authentic power: dead John Brown's body walking from a tunnel to break the armored and concluded mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built... today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, the practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »