Word: fallow
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With Carrie down and the newly opened Legs Diamond stumbling after a fusillade from critics, the chief remaining prospects in a sour season at the end of a fallow decade just recycle the past...
...always dream of movin' on t' somewhere else, like Mexico, Alaska or even Europe (ironic, huh?), as if movin' would make them into different people who maybe weren't so self-destructive. Th' members of th' family also dream that things would be better if they either sold their fallow avocado ranch or if they fixed it up. It doesn't hit 'em til th' end that their fantasies are impossible, that they're doomed...
WOLFE presents these New Yorkers in their full, frightening shallowness. There is Peter Fallow, the British journalist/alcoholic in search of the big story that will pay for his drinking bouts. And Larry Kramer, the disillusioned Bronx assistant district attorney, hoping always for the big case that will earn him a promotion. And finally the Reverend Bacon, a Black Machiavelli who barters racial fury for craven ends...
...middle class is a Hasidic landlord who bugs his rent-controlled apartments in the hope that he can learn of a violation that will enable him to evict low-paying tenants. Peter Fallow, the boozy London-expatriate reporter for Manhattan's British-owned tabloid the City Light, is a major contribution to the literature of journalistic sleaze. Lawrence Kramer, an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, exudes the resentment of a young man who has to live in a small, narrow, $888-a-month apartment ("a slot") with his wife, new baby and nurse (paid for by his mother...
...turn the page, the "Moviegoer" column, a regular feature of this publication, is conspicuously absent this week. Blame it on the Oscars. You see, few films of any quality whatsoever are released around the time of the Academy Awards--coveted awards have notoriously short memories. Thus, in this fallow cinematic period, it not advisable to see any of Hollywood's newest offering. so why not stay home, indulge in your favorite beverage or other combustible, and read the rest of our magazine. Very carefully...