Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rasped, "Come back here." Arrested by her voice, the younger one reluctantly turned around and followed his friend out to face the law. "If you don't pay, you can't ride," she said. The taller boy opened his shiny new Adidas jacket to display a smooth, bare chest. A blonde toddler dressed in overalls with nothing underneath stared interested at the altercation, but no one else noticed the fracas...
...paid, hey man, I paid, you saw me pay, didn't you?" the boy appealed to his younger friend. "Man, you're just doing this 'cause we're Black. This isn't fair." His companion smiled charmingly at the ticket seller and said in a tone, perhaps meant to remind her of her own son, "Aw com'on, it's hot. Our mother wants us home. Don't make us walk." But the ticket seller held her ground and the older boy started screaming again...
...younger boy made for a seat but his older friend pulled him away by the collar of his yellow Lacoste and gestured for the girl to sit; she deferred to an elderly man with a cane. The older boy smiled encouragingly and leaned back against the side of the car, but the girl was too involved with her watch to notice...
Berger strengthens his arguments with vivid prose. No windy academic generalities here. He likes sudden beginnings: "The day before yesterday a close friend of mine killed himself by blowing his brains out." He describes Albrecht Durer's view of the Apocalypse as the day when "the sun would go out, and the heavens would be rolled up and put away like a manuscript." He reports that the mosques of Istanbul are "the colour of ripe honeydew melons." He encapsulates a special quality in Bonnard's art by calling it "an art about cultivating one's own garden...
...thoroughly modern Sarah Ferguson, fiancee of Britain's Prince Andrew, may not be so modern after all. The princess-to-be has chosen a traditional 1662 marriage rite for her wedding on July 23. While Sarah's close friend Diana, Princess of Wales, promised in 1981 to "love, honor and keep" (but not obey) her husband Prince Charles, Sarah will swear to "obey" not once but twice during the service...