For young Bill Blass the local cinemas promised another world, of glamour, where people did nothing all day except wear nice clothes and have agood time.
Shutting off and on several times a day is agood way to quickly wear out your machine --and considering the nasty, ecologically unfriendly PC manufacturing process, the green thing to do is keep the one you have as long as possible.
Transplants and new cancer treatments mean that many who in the 1940s would have died young and left a good-looking corpse now live long enough for their bodies to wear out.
You had to wear this very strange uniform and obey all the rules, and although they fed the children well and gave them agood education, they were so rigid and so strict!