The Playboy Forum

January, 1986

1984 and CountingIt all started a few years ago, but I'm not sure exactly when. It was one of those things that start so subtly, so insidiously, that no one is aware of them until they've already happened. Black cars appeared on the streets of Norman, Oklahoma, bearing the words Norman noise patrol. The noise police were here. Black cars were driving around the streets of this college town with the express purpose of making sure we were quiet.After a few people were arrested for being noisy, the...