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...human being." When he is not drawing caricatures, Levine enjoys painting traditional watercolors. His favorite subjects include women at work in New York City's garment district, where he has observed and sketched them since his boyhood as the son of a dress manufacturer, and at play at Coney Island in his native Brooklyn...
...aqua stars piled chockablock on orange scaffolds beside pink-and-black-striped cardboard columns. Professor Stanley Weingart of the U.S.C. business school says, "I keep waiting for Dumbo the elephant to fly out." It does put one in mind of an amusement park. Although not Disneyland so much as Coney Island...
...grieves over the departure of Patty Lareine, the wealthy wife whom he loves and hates to distraction. It is November, and the tip of Cape Cod retains nothing of its summer weekend splendors: "Provincetown was as colorful then as St.-Tropez, and as dirty by Sunday evening as Coney Island." Confused and lonely, Madden stalks the deserted streets and dunes by day and repairs in the evening to a local restaurant, where he sits in the bar and drinks too much. He is conscious of his new status as an unaccompanied stag and approves of the fear the waitress seems...
Reed takes his relaxed, California-mellow attitude even further on the title track, which, as a confessional, stands proudly alongside such earlier Reed classics as "Coney Island Baby" or "Street Hassle." The song opens with the rhythm section of Saunders and drummer Fred Maher chugging lightly along--as if the engine of Reed's GPZ motorcycle were building up to high gear--finally leading into the expansive guitar and synthesizer work of Reed and Peter Wood. The lyrics begin as a straightforward statement of Reed's new aims in life, but then suddenly veer off to follow Reed...
Indeed, many hospitals welcome the Caribbean imports. "Our patients are very happy," says Dr. Larkin of Methodist, an inner-city hospital that has trouble attrac ing U.S. medical students and accepts about 20 offshore transfers every year. Says a nurse from nearby Coney Island Hospital: "The Caribbean students are more humble. The attitude of mainland students is to let others do the dirty work...