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1. The twenties were the year when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke
because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when
organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it.
Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix
Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper
was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps
more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past. From Kathleen Yancey,
English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.

2. Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries.
Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet
can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the
shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports
(May 1990): 348.

3. Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic of
all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the smell
of oranges as essential to a still life. "The Casbah Gate" depicts the well-known gateway Bab el
Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats
of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history,
Matisse gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab,
the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate. From Peter Plagens, "Bright
Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.

4. While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so
far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world's tallest
building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William
LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears
Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story
building. From Ron Bachman, "Reaching for the Sky." Dial (May 1990): 15.
According to Jacques Cousteau, the activity of people in Antarctica is jeopardizing a delicate
natural mechanism that controls the earth's climate. He fears that human activity could
interfere with the balance between the sun, the source of the earth's heat, and the important
source of cold from Antarctic waters that flow north and cool the oceans and atmosphere
("Captain Cousteau" 17).

During the twenties lawlessness and social nonconformity prevailed. In cities organized crime
flourished without police interference, and in spite of nationwide prohibition of liquor sales,
anyone who wished to buy a drink knew where to get one. Musicians like Louis Armstrong
become favorites, particularly among young people, as many turned away from highly
respectable classical music to jazz. One of the best examples of the anti-traditional trend was
the proliferation of young "flappers," women who rebelled against custom by cutting off their
hair and shortening their skirts (Yancey 25).

The use of a helmet is the key to reducing bicycling fatalities, which are due to head injuries
75% of the time. By cushioning the head upon impact, a helmet can reduce accidental injury by
as much as 85%, saving the lives of hundreds of victims annually, half of whom are school
children ("Bike Helmets" 348).

Matisse paintings are remarkable in giving the viewer the distinct sensory impressions of one
experiencing the scene first hand. For instance, "The Casbah Gate" takes one to the walled city
of Tangier and the Bab el Aassa gateway near the Sultan's palace, where one can imagine
standing on an afternoon, absorbing the splash of colors and the fine outlines. Even the sentry,
the bowaab vaguely eyeing those who come and go through the gate, blends into the scene as
though real (Plagens 50).

How much higher skyscrapers of the future will rise than the present world marvel, the Sears
Tower, is unknown. However, the design of one twice as tall is already on the boards, and an
architect, Robert Sobel, thinks we currently have sufficient know-how to build a skyscraper
with over 500 stories (Bachman 15).

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