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This is another one coming to us from fan of the site, Neal Bridges, who ID’d the Denver Post from Boulder, and the Travel Incorporating Holiday from inside Suite 3. Apologies – I won’t be updating the image for some time; I’m at my limit for image storage, and need to upgrade. Give it time.
The cover headlines are:
- SUDDEN RICHES FOR THE CASUALTY INSURERS
- CORPORATE STRATEGIES
- Emhart
- Arcata
- Alfa Romeo
- Supplement: Marriage counseling
- A scorecard on Carter’s Cabinet
It actually was one of the ones by Stanislaw Fernandez, just not one catalogued over there.
SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE
The marriage counsellor bit is kind of hilarious. I bet a lot of professionals feel a bit like Dick when new couples come into their office. And the Carter analysis reminds of the New York Review of Books from the Torrance collection that goes to town on the former president.
The cover story is SUDDEN RICHES FOR THE CASUALTY INSURERS, words written on the bottom loop of a giant red dollar sign, which is also acting as a catch for a bunch of moneybags. The dollar sign is then crashing through the roof of a car, reminding of the crushed beetle Dick passes on his rescue mission.
Emhart was a tool company that has since been acquired by Stanley. Arcata lumber seems to have vanished without a trace. But Alfa Romeo remains a car company, and was the victor for the first two Formula One competitions, which is referenced in the Boulder apartment. There’s a Chevy Monza parked outside those apartments – Alfa Romeo also made a Monza. And there’s a racetrack in a town by that name. The name predates the 1949 introduction of Alfa and Romeo to the NATO phonetic alphabet that would make “Alpha Romeo” sound like a reference to “AR”. Not that that meant anything to me, except that “R for Romeo” is a phrase that comes up in Dr. Strangelove. In fact, Ripper describes Plan R as “R for Robert” a few minutes before Goldie describes it as “R for Romeo”. I thought that was just a clever way of throwing us off the Romeo connection to Shakespeare, but Robert actually was the code for R, from 1947-1949, which could be a clever way of suggesting Ripper is stuck in the past. “You know when testing on fluoridation first began?” “Uh, no I don’t, Jack.” “Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake! How does that coincide with your postwar commie conspiracy, huh?”
Speaking of communism, the byline for the Alfa Romeo article (from the table of contents) is interesting: “Alfa Romeo: Where labor peace will aid productivity/Even Communists admit the need for more efficiency”. The article deals at length with the labour unions having communist leadership, and with the possibility of mafia involvement in the company (Jack learns a lot in the novel about the Overlook’s mafia involvement). By perhaps amazing coincidence, the production of cars by Alfa Romeo is compared with Peugeot and Citroën, two of the main cars appearing in the capitalist South Vietnam portion of Full Metal Jacket. Also, a British consultant named Hadfield is interviewed about the situation – George Hatfield is the student Jack abuses in the novel, and who forms part of the story’s attitude about warring sides in a conflict (à la the Hatfield-McCoy conflict).
But yeah, having a “Romeo” appear behind Dick makes a nice subtle connection back to everything Romeo means to Strangelove (as I cover in Mass Mirror) and to Plan R. That being the plan to end the world by way of a plane flight. Dick riding this DC10-10CF plane to his doom reminds of all the 2-10/1010 imagery seen throughout the Kubrick canon. In Lolita, the 2-10 car is driven, we think, by Humbert’s shadow self, so it’s interesting to think that Dick could be the shadow of anyone else in the story, really.
A few of the issues from the late ’70s dealt a lot with bulls and bears, and a lot dealt with the oil crisis. I thought this would make another compelling argument for Hallorann as one who has brought balance to his own force, as it were. But we don’t seem to have an overt bull/bear reference here. The first article listed is “Why the stock market went wild”, and there’s a handful of articles about the issue of oil, with none making overt reference to the crisis.
Also, while I haven’t ID’d the fashion mag that lady is reading, it would be interesting to note if it was the same Burda, as seen elsewhere. This Businessweek has a couple articles about the robustness of Germany and Japan’s economies.
One really amazing thing for me about this is that the two books reviewed are James Flexner’s The Young Hamilton (Hamilton forms part of the subtext of Eyes Wide Shut – Bill reads about Amanda’s death in the New York Post, founded by Hamilton) and Joe Girard‘s How to Sell Anything to Anybody. Not that I was waiting for my namesake (and the Guinness record holder for most cars sold in a single year) to show up in the Stanleyverse, but that’s kind of amazing – multiple friends have bought me his books as gag gifts. One of my YouTube commenters once quipped that The Shining should win gold medal in the coincidence Olympics. In moments like this I could almost agree.
Next literary reference: Field & Stream
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