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Savage Grace, a deadpan chronicle of this cesspool of a household, is presented as a collage of documents and reminiscences, in the manner of the 1982 best seller Edie, another glimpse of self-destruction among the elite. The mélange is repetitive yet oddly incomplete, particularly about the family's finances. The absence of a sustained narrative and the mixed-up chronology demand a slow, close reading. There is no attempt at redeeming social importance, and one wonders why Brooks Baekeland and other central characters allowed such an invasion of privacy. Still, the story is evoked with arresting detail...
...asked this question while inspired by the corruption of mid-’70s New York City—the ’75 Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” showed that even the federal government had given up hope on the cesspool the city had become. Coated in a mob-thriller plot and realist filming techniques, this exploration of the nature of friendship continues to be relevant, amusing, and heartbreaking almost 30 years later...
...Haven. The very words make you cringe. But despite what appears to be a putrid cesspool surrounding our Eli brethren, they (Yalies), as well as our counterparts at a host of other elite institutions, seem to have something we lack. According to a confidential memo recently leaked to the Boston Globe, administrators are aware of the unsettling buzz: Harvard students are less satisfied with their undergraduate experience than students at other top-tier colleges...
...majority of Americans drive, few avoid the tax; and by adding a cost to the wanton consumption of gasoline, you actually encourage conservation, accelerate fuel efficiency, reduce pollution, cut traffic and help wean Americans off the oil that requires the U.S. to be so intimately involved in that wonderful cesspool of rival hatreds, the Middle East. So what's not to like...
Moving on. Hollywood Animal alternates chapters about Eszterhas' life in Hollywood with an account of his traumatic childhood. Eszterhas, 59, was born in Hungary during World War II. His first memory is of a little boy who drowned in a cesspool in a refugee camp. When Eszterhas was 5, his parents brought him to the U.S., where he grew up dirt poor and delinquent in the Hungarian section of Cleveland. His father edited a Hungarian-language newspaper, while at home his mother went slowly mad--she believed the electrical outlets were shooting rays at her. All this is affectingly told...