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...Jimmy Breslin is happiest when he is making himself and others angry. He has successfully done so as a New York City newspaper columnist, a sporadic television personality, and the author of six novels. He got his big break in the early '60s at the New York Herald Tribune, where his colleagues included the Richmond dandy Tom Wolfe. The contrast between the two journalists was stark. Wolfe, elegant and soft-spoken, paralyzed his victims with a distinctive satire for which there is still no antidote. Breslin looked like a dented truck, talked loud and dirty, and went after his targets...
...contrast continues to be obvious in He Got Hungry and Forgot His Manners, a novel that mugs New York while the city is still woozy from Wolfe's best-selling The Bonfire of the Vanities. Typically, Breslin is less concerned with the refinements of structure than with the shock effects of tabloid anecdote and an outraged moral tone. On the city's welfare system, for example: "The Poor are the most important people in New York, for their social welfare billions blow through the air for all the well-off to grab; where are the rich supposed to get their...
...Breslin explores the urban jungle through the innocent eyes of Father D'Arcy Cosgrove, an Irish priest who has been transferred from his mission in Africa to crusade in New York against sexual activity not sanctioned by Holy Mother Church. Father D'Arcy is accompanied by Great Big, a 7-ft. African with a craving for potato chips but not much to say. Great Big is, however, credited with the novel's title line ("I got hungry and forgot my manners"), which is Breslin's blunt way of making the historical point that people who do not have enough...
Questioned about the Breslin column Tuesday outside the Massachusetts Statehouse, Dukakis said, "Paul and John will not have any relationship, formal or informal, with the campaign...
DeHart called portions of the Breslin column inaccurate for implying that Tully was in Miami huddling with Dukakis and other aides to plan the debate strategy. But DeHart did not specify any details of the column that she believed were inaccurate...